Night Tube

Since Mayor Johnson first announced his plans to introduce Night Tube (NT) on Fridays and Saturdays back in November 2013, the question in every mess room and canteen has been about how, exactly, is it going to work? Whilst business leaders hailed the opportunity to “boost businesses, jobs and leisure opportunities in London’s vibrant night-time economy” drivers just wanted to know if it would be safe and how we will be fairly compensated for the increasingly anti-social working hours.

This week, after months of talks, your TFC reps, along with their Aslef colleagues, were finally in a position to put a joint proposal on rostering Night Tube to LUL trains management. This followed a decision at Company Council to review the impact of Night Tube on all members of staff.

Today we met LUL for the second time since they made their first and only offer so far in this year's pay negotiations

At today's meeting no new offer was made , but management have agreed to have further talks (to have concluded by the end of next week) at Functional level to ascertain the impact of Night Tube in each of the 7 Grade Functional council areas.IE all staff

Please download and distribute this new edition of London Calling. It is essential that this info goes out to every workplace.

There are printed copies available for collection at Unity House, from the front desk.

This is the latest edition of 'Jubilee South Train Drivers Newsletter' with news and information for RMT train drivers based at Stratford and North Greenwich.

In this edition:

• Pay Talks Update – RMT Calls For Substantial Rise
• Strike Called In McGuigan Dispute
• Go back To Check M Door Alarms
• Car Park Changes
• Sacked For Being Epileptic
• Night Tube
• Age Medicals

Please download and distribute the new London Calling Newsletter with info on the latest talks on Fit for the Future stations and Night Tube.

Download and read the latest edition of RMT Upfront below, and distribute it in your depot.

In this edition:

• LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND UNATTRIBUTABLE BRIEFINGS
  Regular readers of “Up Front” will remember the report in August describing how Alex McGuigan was wrongfully dismissed following a false positive reading arising from an unannounced breath test. Alex’s rep proved that a number of medical conditions had affected the reading and also that the Drug and Alcohol Procedure hadn’t been properly followed....
• Night Tube By A Night Mayor
  

Mick Cash, RMT General Secretary, said "Whilst RMT is not against night running of the tube in principle, provided all staff involved are properly rewarded and that safety and security is thoroughly worked out and agreed, the truth is that the Mayor threw this plan in as a diversion from his massive cuts and closures programme that will axe a thousand staff and decimate services and safety.