23rd May 2025

Dear RMT Member

RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2025 - LONDON UNDERGROUND

RMT continues to press LUL to address our 2025 pay claim. The anniversary date for our pay deal is 1st April, yet management has only now agreed to even met us. The meeting will take place on 28 May, two months after you should have received the pay rise.

RMT will demand that LUL acts urgently to make good on the parts of our previous pay deals that the company has failed to deliver.

·Changing banded salaries to spot rates

It was agreed as part of our 2024 deal that some banded salaries would work better as spot salaries. Spot salaries mean everyone doing a role get paid the same and pay rises are applied to them automatically. Despite RMT pushing to discuss these arrangements management has only just agreed to start function by function discussions. No banded salaries have yet been converted into spot salaries.

·Extension of Priv

During 2024 pay talks we were told that management was confident of introducing extended leisure Priv to all LUL staff by April 2025. This was in line with our 2023 pay deal. However, we have now been told that the body representing the national rail industry has declined to accept a proposal from TfL. We have been kept in the dark ever since the agreement to extend Priv was made. This is not acceptable.

2025 Claim

We have told management that LUL must address our concerns about working hours this year. Shifts in many areas have become more extreme and members are suffering ill health and fatigue as a result on our round the clock working. RMT seeks a 32h/4day week across the rail industry. We need real progress towards this. That means a reduction in contractual hours that enables members to have more quality time away from work. A reduction in contractual working hours could then be implemented, in agreement with TUs, on a function-by-function basis to best suit members in each area.

As always, we expect a pay offer based on RPI to protect members from rising living costs.

As in previous pay rounds, we will be insisting that any pay deal is applied in full, to all, as consolidated pay. We will not allow management to pick and choose who gets a pay rise in LUL.

Pay Talks on 28 May

We are demanding that management put an acceptable offer on the table on 28th May. Failure to do so will be reported to your union's National Executive Committee to consider all options, which could include starting a ballot of all RMT members in LUL.

I will update you on any developments.

Yours sincerely,

Eddie Dempsey
General Secretary