London Underground Ltd

London Underground has begun the process for the purchase of driverless trains. This ‘Periodic Notice’ from early March, for trains capable of ‘unattended operation’ is taken from the Official Journal of the European Union. A Periodic Notice “provides advance information about works, supplies or service contracts that, at the beginning of the budgetary year, the contracting authority intends to award during the next 12 months.”

The RMT has already declared itself in dispute over the issue of driverless trains.

RMT, London Underground and other unions are involved in ongoing talks regarding 'Fit for the Future: Stations' plans. Our succesful industrial action has secured further and more detailed talks which include a station by station review. This could be a positive step but tube bosses propose to carry it out in a very short amount of time.

• LU crumbled and acceded to critical demands placed on them by this union
• Union’s position remains the same: no job cuts, no ticket office closures and no to austerity on London’s Underground.
• Union is particularly concerned on the statements made by LU Directors that they will be coming for our member’s pensions.
• Strike pay to be discussed

GGC Decision

Dear Colleagues,

STRIKE ACTION SUSPENDED – MEMBERS INSTRUCTED TO WORK NORMALLY

EVERY JOB MATTERS – DEFENDING JOBS ON LONDON UNDERGROUND

I wrote to you on Friday advising you that your negotiators believed that some progress had been made, but the company at the last minute decided to impose pre-conditions, including RMT calling off strike action and totally withdrawing from the current dispute, this would have meant a new ballot being required for any further industrial action.

This is the May edition of Every Job Matters - Trains Dispute Report. In this edition:

• Train drivers are fit for the fightback
• Why did we strike?
• LUL wrecks ACAS talks
• Job for life promise for drivers in doubt
• ACAS Update
• Transport For All support
• TUC support
• Strike pay periods

Piccadilly News is the newsletter for drivers at Arnos Grove, Acton Town and Northfileds.

In this edition:

• Rock solid again
• Arnos Grove depot - best supported strike at Arnos Grove ever
• Acton Town and Northfields - There was a tremendous show of support from all but a few
• Once again, RMT station staff responded magnificently tothe strike call
• Attack on pensions

This General Grades Committee notes the report from our Lead Officer and are extremely dismayed that London Underground has failed to make any significant offer at ACAS that would be acceptable to this union and our members. Not only that, but LU’s last minute conditional demand that we withdraw our dispute over this is completely inappropriate and not how this union does business. It is also a reprehensible attempt to interfere with the internal democracy of this union. As a consequence our strike action scheduled for next week remains on.

Dear Colleagues,

EVERY JOB MATTERS - DEFENDING JOBS ON LONDON UNDERGROUND

STRIKE ACTION ON

This week saw the RMT take their second 48 hour period of strike action against London underground's devastating plan to close all ticket offices and shut nearly a thousand jobs. Many tube lines were suspended by the RMT action, with big delays across all other lines.

RMT is mid way through a planned five days of all-out strike action across London Underground after long-running talks hosted by ACAS, aimed at settling the dispute over cuts to jobs, ticket offices and safety, were wrecked by a combination of management intransigence and the introduction of additional measures that actually worsened the original toxic package. It has also been made crystal clear to the union that this is just a first tranche of cuts with even harder attacks being lined up for the near future.

The RMT is today (2nd May, 2014) back at ACAS following the recent industrial action.

With strike action solid this morning, tube union RMT reminded Mayor Boris Johnson of his repeated promises not to close tube ticket offices – broken promises that run right to the heart of the dispute.

Asked last year about his plans to close a number of ticket offices across London, Boris Johnson's spokesperson said:

"This Mayor takes his promis es to Londoners extremely seriously. Every station that has a ticket office will continue to have one.”