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RMT strike action on Bakerloo Line goes ahead from lunchtime as LU and Mayor ignore union stress warnings
RMT strike action on Bakerloo Line goes ahead Friday as LU refuse serious talks
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that strike action on the Bakerloo line in a dispute over the impact on train drivers over unworkable timetable changes that place operators under intolerable levels of personal stress will go ahead as planned from lunchtime on Friday after tube bosses slammed the door on serious talks aimed at reaching a solution.
Our ballot returned a 95% majority for taking industrial action. At the heart of this dispute, and what most people believe to be the problem with our timetables, are the turnaround times in the North Sheds at Queen’s Park. These turnaround times have been cut to the bone over the past couple of years. The RMT have demanded that these are improved. This in turn would require moredrivers. This in turn would make our working day bearable.
After two meetings with senior Bakerloo managers and
three meetings at the Arbitration and Conciliation Service
(Acas), we are no further forward in our efforts to resolve
our dispute with LU over our shambles of a timetable.
- please download the attached leaflet and display it in relevant depots.
Members on the Northern, Jubilee, Central and Victoria lines are currently receiving ballot papers relating to excessive track noise.
The ballot will be conducted on a line by line basis. This ballot has been forced upon us in response to the TU Act 2016 which exhausts ballot mandates after 6 months, meaning that the resounding yes vote mandate that was returned last year would expire in March.
RMT Upfront is the newsletter for London Underground train drivers, produced by RMT activists.
In this special 'pay dispute' edition, we look at where we are now with the dispute and where we go next.
Please download the attached newsletter to read it, print it out and distribute it in your depot.
RMT TO RE-BALLOT MEMBERS DUE TO ANTI-TRADE UNION LAWS
6th of February 2020
Dear Colleagues
Excessive Track Noise – London Underground
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that it has called strike action on the Bakerloo line in a dispute over the impact on train drivers over unworkable timetable changes that place operators under intolerable levels of personal stress.
A ballot for action covering driver members produced a 95% vote for action.
Members have been instructed as follows;
RMT Upfront is the newsletter for Tube train drivers from RMT activists. In this special edition you can read about why Bakerloo Line drivers are going to take industrial action.
Please download and distribute the attached newsletter in your Bakerloo Line depot.
INTRODUCTION OF CBTC, METROPOLITAN LINE - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)
I previously advised you that, with regard to a resolution submitted by our Neasden Branch which highlighted a number of areas of concern for members working in Trains, Stations and Service Control over the introduction of the new Communication Based Train Control (CBTC), I was instructed to inform London Underground that a failure to address these matters would result in a dispute situation existing (Ref: IR/515/19, 18th December 2019).