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RMT confirms programme of action on London Underground over pay, Night Tube and job cuts.

Tube union RMT today confirmed that its executive has agreed to a wide ranging programme of industrial action across London Underground grades in two separate disputes over pay and night tube and the plans to bulldoze through massive cuts to station staffing numbers early next month.

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Every Job Matters /Fit for future update from RMT Regional Organiser John Leach

Dear members,

Today I met LUL with senior stations reps to discuss the above. We all know that we have been in months of talks, there have been strikes and the proposal Fit for Future: Stations has been linked to all members pay for 2015 and beyond.

Bakerloo News is the newsletter for RMT London Transport members in the Bakerloo branch.  Download it and print it out for your colleagues, or share it online.

In this edition:

• New year, new action: overtime ban on stations - Prepare to strike!

• Questions & Answers On The New Action

• Taking the fight to Interserve

• Drivers: say no to distractions in the cab

• Keep Bakerloo Ticket Offices Open!

• SAVE QUEEN’S PARK TICKET OFFICE

EVERY JOB MATTERS – DEFENDING JOBS ON LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/5)
 
Further to my previous Circular (IR/299/15, 4th December 2015) there remains a number of areas of concern over London Underground’s Fit for the Future Stations (FFFS) proposals and the Lead Officer has written to LUL seeking assurances that there will be no imposition of a new framework agreement, that staff will not be forced to sign new contracts and that rosters will not be imposed. At the time of writing we have not yet received a response from LUL. 
 

We note the report on file from the Lead Officer and we instruct the General Secretary to instruct our Station Grades members to carry out an overtime ban from 05:30 hours on Sunday 3rd January 2016 until further notice. And to refuse (from the date of this decision) to sign any contract or letter regarding working hours or agreements ( with the exception of  members on Fixed Term Contracts who should sign permanent contract) We resolve to take the struggle for every job matters into the new year  until our just demands on pay and conditions are met.

A broken down train on London's Northern Line this morning, leading to massive disruption the length of the line, has capped off a week of chaos for London commuters as the reality of trying to cram surging numbers of passengers into chronically overcrowded rail and tube services comes home to ‎roost. 

RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said;