Read the ten reasons below. Click '1 attachment' / file name to download a special issue of 'RMT London Calling for service control grades.

1. Because the job cuts on service control, stations and other grades, will be a disaster. Everyone will suffer, including our passengers.

2. Because LU management are not listening to your union reps in the talks. Industrial action is the only effective tool at our disposal that can force the issue and bring our concerns into the open.

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download this newsletter. Please distribute widely to London Underground service control staff.

This resolution, submitted by Neasden branch and seconded by Hammersmith & City branch, was passed unanimously at the November 2009 meeting of the Regional Council.

This Branch condemns the callous attitude shown by Management, particularly HR, towards apprentices and ex-apprentices and other groups of members in Service Control. The Management aim is to redeploy these members despite being promised jobs in Service Control.

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download our new Service Control Newsletter.

RMT's annual two-day conference for signalling grades takes place at Lincoln Labour Club, Gafton House, Newlands, Lincoln.

This leaflet urges Track Access Controllers to vote Yes in the industrial action ballot. Click '1 attachment' / file name to download it. Read the text below.

Track Access Controllers: Vote Yes To Strike Action

GRADE PROGRESSION!!!
WHAT GRADE PROGRESSION?

The company have told you the money is in the pot and ready for grade progression implementation.
This is clearly not true. It has never been available to go into your pocket as they have told you!

This leaflet encourages service control staff to vote Yes in the industrial action ballot. Click '1 attachment' / file name to to donwload it. Read the text below.

SERVICE CONTROL

RMT members are being balloted for strike action and action short of strike action against management’s current attacks on staff!

Jobs and conditions are under serious threat the District Line reserve is being reduced by four and numerous SCL2 jobs are going with the LIS role, LUL have also not delivered on a guarantee for SO4’s to follow their work!!!

Click on the file name to download and print the March issue of the Service Control newsletter. You can read the text below.

COBOURG ST SO4 SHOCK

The JWP met again in February, management advised staff side that not one SO4 had progressed to SCL2 training, we found that amazing, it was raised at company council and it has been agreed that two staff side members would assist in writing the initial assessments as they are obviously too hard.

Current agreements have been submitted to the Company Council and Ratified subject to agreements being kept!

Signallers on the Waterloo and City are celebrating a victory today, LU refused to recognise the unique controller duties they performed and classified them as the lowest grade signal operator.

After months of unrest LUL have caved in and agreed to regrade the staff at Waterloo to Service Controller Waterloo and City, increase their pay to 40k (The 40k figure is based on the fact the control room staff will not work night duties or Sundays) and back date the pay claim to the 1st April 2008.

Signallers on the Waterloo and City Line were promised a regrade in July to reflect the duties carried out , a senior LUL manager recommended a regrade and produced a report to that effect.
'LUL have ignored it and refused the request'.

Discussions continue however it appears that management are spoiling for a fight!

This resolution, submitted by Stratford no.1 branch, was passed at the October 2008 meeting of the Regional Council

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Due to recent changes and anomalies in the representation of controllers/service managers within Service Control, this branch requests that the regional council adopts the following rule changes as a workable temporary arrangement until the time that the executive can produce a new set of rules.

As local representatives do not exist in the Controller/Service Manager grades within Service Control.

by Kebba Jobe, RMT health & safety rep, LUL service control

In February, Jo Duffy was re-elected RMT representative, but his local Service Control Manager refused to recognise his position, despite the fact that a local rep had been negotiated for Jubilee line service control eight years previously and they had recognised me when I was the rep for five of those years!