News, reports and information for RMT members in London Underground's manager and administration grades. LUL managers are in TfL branch. Read more TfL branch related stories here.
The RMT met with London Underground this morning (2nd April) for what the company considered to be the first Skills Development Transformation consultation meeting.
**URGENT** for members in affected areas:
Track Access Control, Power Control, Service Control, LUCC, Skills Development, Waste, Pumps, Stations Buildings & Civils and Signals Incidents
TFL/LUL TRANSFORMATION (LUL/15/4)
Official Circular No: IR/125/19 29th March 2019
Dear Colleagues,
London Underground announced plans today (Tuesday 26th March) to cut over 100 jobs in their latest round of 'Transformation'. These cuts are being made in multiple areas including, Track Access, Trainers, LUCC, Power and Waste Services.
On Monday 18th March, RMT reps from several Functional Councils (MATS, Service Control, Engineering, Fleet) were told that plans for further reorganisation on London Underground would begin on Monday 25th March. We were not given any further information until yesterday (21st March) when we were invited to attend a large number of staff briefings in different areas of the company.
The third day of London Underground pay talks took place yesterday (Wednesday 13th March). RMT Regional Organiser, John Leach, attended with reps from the seven Functional Councils RMT has recognition on. The company had previously asked us to remove a number of items from our pay claim before they would make us a financial offer. We refused this request and returned yesterday to continue to engage in meaningful talks with the company. There were discussions about improving staff travel facilities and also around our demand for a 32 hour, 4 day working week.
Please find attached an updated newsletter for London Underground Manager and Admin members. Please replace any newsletters that have been displayed with this updated version
Please print the attached notice and share with all members
Anthony Codd has worked for LUL for over 35 years. He was a n Operational grade Q1A Duty Manager working in the Track Access Control Centre (TACC) before being, what we believe, unfairly summarily dismissed at a CDI in August 2018.
An incident occurred back in January 2018, where a Track Access Controller (TAC) made an error that could have potentially endangered staff working on the track. This was, at the time, bought to the attention of Mr Codd who was the TACC Duty Manager on duty that night.
As you will be aware, all work streams in London Underground Transformation have now been stood up.
Please find attached a newsletter for LU MATS members. Please print and share with those who may be interested
We are nearing the end of Transformation. This has been a long and stressful process for all of our members who have been involved. Throughout the consultation, management have ignored many of the concerns raised by our reps and members, and have refused to share detailed plans of how things will actually work post-implementation. A number of managers who have been leading Transformation are leaving the company and this has been notable by the differences in consultation between work streams.