Time For Strikes

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The week is ending on a downer for LU station staff, as we discover that management will impose a "Transfer and Promotions" policy that essentially allows them to move us around as and when it suits them, giving us little to no say in the matter.

Displacements will hit our already dismal work/life balance yet further. Again and again, management show that they do not see us human beings with social and family lives, but as equipment.

Our union negotiators will push for concessions but our real power derives from our ability to refuse to be use as equipment. In other words, to strike.

Displacements, with the threat of more to come, is one issue amongst many. Our stations are staffed at unworkably low levels, leading to fatigue-inducing rosters. A training crisis means hundreds of us aren't properly trained for new roles in new locations. And promises the company made to station staff, including the commitment that CSA2s would benefit from the pay rise which arrived in April, have been broken. The list goes on.

We need a ballot for new strikes, and we need it now.

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