17th July 2024

Dear RMT Member

RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2024 - LONDON UNDERGROUND

RMT submitted a pay claim to LUL in April and last week your Lead Officer and negotiating team attended pay talks with LUL. At the meeting, a verbal offer was made to increase rates of pay by 3%. However, pay bands would remain frozen and any member whose pay rises above the top of their band would receive only a non-consolidated payment for any salary above the band. The negotiating team unanimously found this offer to be unacceptable.

This matter has been considered by the National Executive Committee and I have now written to LUL in the strongest terms to demand that an improved offer is tabled at the next meeting scheduled for Tuesday 23rd July 2024. Any acceptable pay offer must be paid in full and as consolidated salary to every member in the collective bargaining unit. I have also advised LUL that a failure to make such an offer as set out above will lead to a dispute situation.

At the meeting last week, TfL also gave a presentation outlining proposals on pay management and job families affecting all grades across TfL, LUL and RfLI. Notably, employees who are paid within a pay range who exceed the maximum of that range will receive the relevant portion of the award in excess of the maximum as a non-consolidated lump sum.

The NEC declared that this Union will not sit by and wait for proposals from TfL regarding paybands being introduced to all grades. RMT is completely opposed to this and will use all means at our disposal to defend our jobs, pay, terms and conditions and pensions.

I will of course keep you advised of all further developments.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Lynch
General Secretary