In 2011, the Operations Strategic Plan (OSP) stripped station staffing to the bone. Stations are barely coping as it is. Now management plan to cut nearly 1,000 of our jobs, close all our ticket offices, and completely reorganise our way of working.
Our stations will not cope with this. Every remaining member of station staff will be over-stretched, vulnerable to abuse and assault, fearful for our safety and our jobs. Our jobs will be devalued and our promotion chances will be gone. The company even intents to make us, in effect, reapply for our own jobs.
We can defeat this attack. If we act quickly and decisively, and with the support of our workmates across the stations and in other grades, we can put enough pressure on management to make them rethink.