Service control jobs are under threat
- When Hammersmith Control Centre opens and cabins close, London Underground wants to shed 150+ jobs. RMT has alternative plan which does not reduce the number of jobs.
- With Cobourg Street due to close, twenty 20x SO4s have still not been found a post.
- Management’s long-term strategy is to replace us with technology – to use modern signalling systems not to make our job easier and safer, but as an excuse to get rid of us.
Removing station staff makes our job harder
- We need station staff, including Station Supervisors, on site to help deal with incidents.
- If there is a one-under, a SPAD, a door fault or any other incident, and there is no Supervisor on the station, all the responsibility will fall on you. This will make it much more difficult to deal with the incident, and make you much more likely to be in trouble if things go wrong.
- If you can no longer do your job in service control, you will not be able to get redeployed to stations if there are no stations jobs left!