Pay&Conditions/Night Tube 2015

Voluntary Severance and its Discontents

Hundreds of station staff have signed up to take voluntary severance (VS).

The VS scheme was one of the means by which LU claimed it was softening the blow of the "Fit for the Future" job cuts, arguing that, while nearly 1,000 jobs would be cut, at least no-one was actually being sacked. While...

32, not 36!

RMT has been polling its driver members in a referendum to see if they want union negotiators to discuss the possibility of amending the drivers' framework to facilitate the trial of a four-day, 36-hour week in two depots. The results are due back this week.

The trial would necessitate increasing...

Speak To Us Together, Or Not At All

London Underground's attempt to undermine collective bargaining, by launching what it laughably calls a "listening exercise", which promotes its latest offer on pay and conditions to staff on an individual basis, rather than through our unions, deserves to be treated with utter contempt.

Leaflets...

Four-Day, 36-Hour Week?

On trainside there has been an ongoing discussion about a voluntary 36-hour four-day week, on a trial basis at certain depots, with both Aslef and RMT negotiators seemingly in favour.

There is talk of giving up all sorts of agreements to reach this goal, though the mandate for that is very unclear...

Why give our 'Viewpoint' if our bosses won't listen?

Five days before the deadline, TfL reported that only 29% of employees had filled out 'Viewpoint', TfL's staff survey.

The survey has the subheading 'Your Opinion Matters' but one reason for the low response rate must be that most of us have realised that TfL and LUL do not really care what we...

If LU isn't listening, we have to make ourselves impossible to ignore.

Union reps on stations are currently busy conducting another "roster consultation" process. We went through this once already in the spring; LU released absolutely nightmarish draft rosters, which involved drastic reductions in weekends off for almost all of us, a big increase in lone working,...

Fixed-Term Victory

LU has finally committed in writing that any CSA working on a fixed-term contract on 21 August or before will be retained on a permanent basis at their existing grade. They've also said that, from February 2016, they will cease to recruit fixed-termers.

This is obviously a big win for us, which we...

Tell LU: The Clock Is Ticking! Count Down To More Action!

Talks between LU and the unions on our disputes over pay/Night Tube and job cuts (and other issues relating to "Fit for the Future - Stations") are ongoing. Negotiators say they are making progress, and significant concessions, such as LU's commitment to retain fixed-term contract station staff on a...

Update Please

Tube workers gradually found out via rumour and the BBC that RMT will not, after all, strike on 8 and 10 September. The usual text and email notifications were not sent out. This is presumably because the union never actually officially put the strikes on - instead, it declared its intention to call...

"Progress"?

We have been receiving messages from our respective unions telling us that this week's strikes are off, with an explanation that talks are making "progress". Perhaps we are supposed to just accept this without wanting to know more, but rank-and-file Tube workers do want to know more, and local reps...

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