Dear colleague
IMPOSITION OF COVID-19 ROSTER – LONDON UNDERGROUND
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR TRAIN OPERATORS AND INSTRUCTOR OPERATORS
Your union notes with alarm London Underground’s intention to impose duty rosters at train operator depots that will provide for a significant ramping up of the current emergency level of service on the Tube.
The NEC has this evening taken a decision to go into dispute with LUL over the imposition of rosters for train operators. Our reps and RO have managed to convince LUL to delay the actual working of the rosters for a week but the company still wants to assert that they are imposed from this Sunday. From Sunday 3/5/20 LUL expects our Train Operators to book on for the new duties.
Working to these imposed rosters would make social distancing impossible to guarantee.
The full decision can be downloaded here.
Dear colleague
FURLOUGH ARRANGEMENTS – CORONAVIRUS – TRANSPORT FOR LONDON
Your union has been in discussions with Transport for London as the company plans to introduce Furlough Arrangements where certain members of staff in TfL/LUL will be put on to the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
The company has outlined that those currently being identified for the scheme would be staff whose work has ceased or reduced as a result of the current pandemic as well as those who are absent from work due to shielding or on long-term sickness absence.
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Dear RMT members in Train grades,
Following the universal rejection of Covid 19 Emergency duty schedules and LUL's threat to impose them next Sunday,we met at Director level yesterday and informed them that these schedules were fundamentally misconceived.
The proposed timetabled service was far too intense for purpose and the schedules were fundamentally unsafe and inappropriate.
RMT responds to press speculation over the reintroduction of transport services beyond the movement of essential workers.
General Secretary Mick Cash said
"No one has discussed any moves to begin restoring transport services with this trade union and the dates we have seen reported in the press look like pure speculation.
"Instead of secretive briefings to the media the Government should be talking to us as it is our members who are key to any phased increase in transport services when it is proven to us that it is safe to do so.
Tube bosses have announced plans to impose a 4 minute timetable on the Jubilee Line in a matter of days. At a time when we are risking our lives and that of our families to come to work; it is both unnecessary and an insult to us to expect us to operate such a high level of service throughout the day when trains are frequently empty.
Attached is an RMT briefing on the government's 'Job Retention Scheme' for furloughed workers.
Dear RMT members
Following on from my message yesterday, at the bottom of this message, I have attended both the LUL Company council and Tfl Company council this afternoon.
Both employers have told us that to assist with catastrophic loss of finances Tfl will make use of the Governments "Job Retention scheme" which provides up Financial support to employers hit by the Coronavirus crisis.
Dear RMT members
At 5pm today myself and NEC member Jared Wood attended a Tfl briefing by Directors on the impact of the Corona virus on revenue and finance in Tfl.
Tfl told us that they have been hit catastrophically by the loss of revenue and also are spending £600million every 4 weeks keeping Tfl operating.
Tfl have been in talks with the government on financial support and those negotiations are still in hand.
Emergency company councils have been called tomorrow.