Opposing cuts in staffing levels and jobs
Paul Jackson, LU Engineering branch secretary writes ...
I had an incident at my local station on Thursday that may be indicative of LUL's future.
Click '1 attachment' / file name to download a poster with quotes from RMT and ASLEF representatives, showing that despite London Underground's claims, the plans to cut stations jobs do affect train drivers.
Please distribute this as widely as possible to drivers. Other grades - especially station staff - will also be pleased to see this evidence that drivers' union reps understand the impact of the job cuts and oppose them.
Click on these links to:
Stations and Revenue Grades Meetings Monthly meetings that bring together rank-and-file station and revenue RMT reps and activists. All members are welcome to come along and raise issues that concern you and plan with others how we are going to fight for a better deal for our grades.
Come along and bring your experience and ideas with you!
Location: The Exmouth Arms (upstairs), nearest station Euston Square.
exit the station turn right, take the first right. For a map http://www.exmoutharms.co.uk/ click the FIND US tab.
Standing Items on the Agenda:
London Underground has given some information about its plans to reorganise station groups. Comparing this with existing staff numbers, we can see where the company plans to cut jobs, and what effect the reorganisation will have on your working life.
You will see from this that every station and every group will be affected. You can not escape the effect of these cuts - except by joining RMT's fight to stop them!
Click here to read what London Underground is planning and why RMT objects.
London Underground has made clear that only managers and a handful of SAMFs may have the chance of voluntary severance when it makes its job cuts. CSAs will not, and neither will the vast majority of SAMFs, and neither will any other grades.
In a case of "one rule for managers, another for the rest of us", LU is confident that it can achieve its job cuts in the CSA and SAMF jobs without offering VS because it has held so many posts vacant, and because it plans to simply move you around and displace you to other stations.
At yesterday's Joint Working Party meeting about job cuts, the unions raised some points about the process and received answers to questions we raised at the previous week's Company Council meeting. These issues are listed below. You will notice that in most cases, the company is not giving clear answers to the unions' questions, which reinforces RMT's view that it is not talking to us in good faith.
RMT London Transport Regional Council is holding a public meeting about London Underground job cuts on Wednesday the 31 March, 6 - 8pm, at Friends House, Euston Road - opposite Euston Station.
Click '1 attachment' / file name to download this as a PDF.
First they came for the admin staff, and I did not take action because I am not admin staff
Then they came for the engineers, and I did not take action because I am not an engineer
Then they came for the station staff, and I did not take action because I do not work on stations
Then they came for service control, and I did not take action because I do not work in service control
Then they came for the revenue staff, and I did not take action because I am not an RCI
The cat is out of the bag. LUL have told the unions bluntly that they intend to slash as many as 800 operational jobs across the combine. Recent leaked documents have shown that these cuts are merely the tip of an iceberg which includes sub-surface stations having no more than minimum staff numbers, even during special events, and open section stations having no staff at all. This is a Company Plan with knobs on.