Defending jobs

Opposing cuts in staffing levels and jobs

RMT seeks resolution of LU's chronic station understaffing - or we will be in dispute

Submitted by Admin on 14 August, 2026 - 19:54

STATION STAFFING - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/5)

The Lead Officer has reported that LUL still continues to seek to reorganise and reduce headcount across stations. RMT members took strike action in 2023 under the Defending Jobs & Agreements dispute which was resolved at the time in terms of the impact on stations but since that time, we have experienced a failure to fill vacancies at the same time as passenger levels now exceeding pre-covid period at times, which has led to a chronic state of understaffing on stations and in the revenue department.

Tube ballot papers arriving soon

Submitted by Admin on 22 June, 2025 - 17:49

20th June 2025

 

Dear RMT Member

RMT is conducting two separate ballots for LUL members over Rates of Pay & Conditions of Service 2025 and Defending Jobs & Agreements. Please click here to view a bulletin about these disputes.

Your ballot papers will be posted out on Friday 27th June so please look out for them and make sure to return your ballot papers as soon as possible. The closing date for both ballots is Tuesday 29th July 2025.

New jobs, pensions and agreements ballot for Tube members

Submitted by Admin on 26 March, 2024 - 11:19
A ballot paper is posted into a red post box

26th March 2024

Dear RMT Member,

DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS – LONDON UNDERGROUND

All London Underground members are commended for maintaining a strong and positive mandate for industrial action throughout this long-running dispute. The anti-trade union laws mean each ballot mandate only lasts for 6 months so another ballot is now due to keep our action live. Your ballot paper will be posted on Thursday 28th March so please look out for it arriving in the post next week. The ballot closes on Thursday 25th April.

Fleet staffing levels concern

Submitted by Admin on 8 March, 2024 - 08:18

1st of March

DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)

Further to my previous Circular (IR/374, 22nd December 2023), the Union has raised the issue of Fleet Staffing Levels with LUL and data suggests that only 80% of positions in Fleet Depots are currently filled.

This practice of not filling vacancies is putting enormous strain on Fleet Grades members to cover the workload and keep the train fleets moving. Also the restrictions on transfers is having a significant detrimental effect by creating unnecessarily long waiting lists.

Jobs, Pensions & Agreements dispute - join the online briefing

To: All RMT LUL Members

Dear Colleague,

RMT LUL REBALLOT - ONLINE MEMBER BRIEFING - 4PM MONDAY 23RD OCTOBER

Please join an important online briefing for all RMT LUL members about the reballot in our campaign to defend your jobs, pensions and agreements.

This is an opportunity to hear from the lead officers and negotiators about why it is so important to deliver a big YES vote in the reballot and have your questions answered.

If you would like to submit a question for the panel, please do so here by 12pm on Monday at the latest.

Strike date changed: Strike called as LU management consider pension attack

Submitted by Admin on 19 October, 2022 - 22:56

See an important update here.

19th October 2022

Dear Colleagues,

LONDON UNDERGROUND STRIKE ACTION CALLED

I am writing to advise you that London Underground are continuing their sustained attacks on staff through a program of cuts that includes pension changes, job cuts, and the imposition of new working arrangements.

Newsletter: RMT News May 2022

Submitted by Admin on 23 May, 2022 - 16:38

RMT News is the newsletter for station workers on London Underground.

Download it to read the latest news and print and distribute in your station.

In this edition:

  • Station staff ready for action in June!
  • Stations strike and overtime ban
  • Update your details now!
  • Euston and green park members stand against toxic management
  • Join the credit union!

TUC Disabled Workers Condemn P&O Sackings

Submitted by Janine on 24 March, 2022 - 11:50

The TUC's Disabled Members' Committee has made this statement:

Accessible public transport is essential for disabled people to participate in society on an equal and independent basis. To be genuinely accessible, public transport must be adequately staffed by workers with decent standards of training, pay, conditions and security of employment.

P&O protest at parent company HO

RMT will protest outside the London headquarters of P&O’s parent company DP World tomorrow, 18 March, at 16:00. 

The protest follows P&O’s summary dismissal of 800 workers and forms part of a national day of action that will also see protests in Hull, Dover, and Liverpool. 

DP World is a multibillion pound multinational which has seen huge increases in its revenue. It made $1.3 billion profit in 2021, up 19% on the previous year.

Join us at 16 Palace Street, SW1E 5JQ to demand reinstatement for the P&O workers.