Read the ten reasons below. Click '1 attachment' / file name to download a special issue of 'RMT London Calling for service control grades.

1. Because the job cuts on service control, stations and other grades, will be a disaster. Everyone will suffer, including our passengers.

2. Because LU management are not listening to your union reps in the talks. Industrial action is the only effective tool at our disposal that can force the issue and bring our concerns into the open.

3. Because management have not listened to YOU; they have not provided you with an opportunity to vote on the job cuts they are making! RMT is giving you that voice, giving you the opportunity to show your opposition to the reduction of staff on stations, service control and the other key ‘customer facing’ grades.

4. Because we are already being slaughtered with coverage at work – vacancies not being filled, duties being left uncovered, leaving us over-worked and under-staffed. LU is increasing our workload with the introduction of new kit that doesn’t perform as it should, leaving staff to pick up the pieces. Management have taken the steps necessary to reduce our staffing in service control. This is happening now and will continue to happen until we have control rooms with minimum numbers as the norm.

5. Because this is an all-grades ballot, as management are coming for jobs on stations and on trains as well as in service control. RMT is balloting service control, trains, stations, revenue control, engineering and admin staff and we ask for your support in returning a massive YES vote. No grade is being left to fight alone.

6. Because every vote places pressure on management to withdraw from these disastrous plans to cull staff.

7. Because management interpret every No vote as support for their job cuts and every abstention as apathy – they will take both as an endorsement of their plans and ‘spin it’ in the media to try to undermine your union’s fight.

8. Because industrial action is where our real power lies. We keep London Underground running every day – if we withdraw our labour, the Tube stops, and the company and the politicians have to listen.

9. Because if we do not take a stand now, TfL/LU will not stop at these cuts. They will come back time and again to cut staffing and when there is no more damage they can do there, they will come for your pay, conditions and pensions. This is not just union scare tactics: it is a stark warning of things to come if we do not fight for our right to stay protected in our jobs.

10. Because these job cuts are not necessary nor ‘inevitable’ – not if we fight them.