Night Tube
LU wants to start running it’s Friday and Saturday ight-tube service from Sept 2015. With a completely new station staffing model demanding new grades and rosters to be introduced in early 2016 we are faced with months of upheaval. Any sane employer would delay Night Tube until 2016 but no one in LU management will stand up to Boris.

Night Tube presents real problems for all grades and RMT is fighting to ensure that any members affected receive fair compensation from the company.

What Night Tube Means for Us

Train Operators

• Many more nights
• Dealing with anti-social behaviour with inadequate levels of station staff to assist.
• Breaks in existing agreements on night running

Engineering Workers

• Worse roster patterns
• Threat of LUL bringing in agency staff to carry out track patrols
• Possible loss of additional rest days

Station Staff

• More night turns for CSS1
• Introduction of night turns for ALL CSAs who will provide cover for new part-time night staff
• Dealing with anti-social behaviour in understaffed stations

Service Control

• Increased workloads for controllers & signallers
• DRMs required to provide cross line cover without proper training on different signalling stock

Members working for Contractors

• RMT members working for cleaning and catering contractors are also likely to be affected by Night Tube with passengers and staff to provide for throughout two nights a week.

Your RMT reps are questioning LU on every aspect of Night Tube from both industrial and health & safety perspectives. RMT is not opposed to extending running hours in principle but this isn’t something that can be rushed through just so the Mayor can show off.

We need proper consideration to be given of the problems caused by part closing some stations and the impact on maintenance regimes when we lose two consecutive nights of engineering hours.

This article is taken from London Calling Newsletter here>.