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BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TRAIN OPERATORS, HAMMERSMITH & CITY LINE – LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)
BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TRAIN OPERATORS, PICCADILLY LINE – LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)
Further to my previous Circular (IR/345/16, 17th November 2016) and following the recent ballot result in favour of taking further strike action and action short of a strike over the long-running and unresolved issues affecting members on the Piccadilly Line, the National Executive Committee noted the views from a meeting of RMT Reps and has taken the decision to call on all affected members NOT TO BOOK ON for any shifts that commence between:-
LUL recently presented your Trains, Health and Safety Council reps with a Change Assurance Plan, which outlined proposals to progressively remove Tunnel Telephone wires from April 2017. The removal process would last 2 years with priority given to areas prone to breakages.
Dear RMT members
Today myself with RMT Piccadilly line reps and TFC met face to face with the LUL JNP Director, Piccadilly line General Manager and ER team at ACAS.
We were able to lay out in detail all of the issues effecting our members that need fixing on the line. We explained the anger of our members and our determination to get justice
Management have agreed to respond to us in writing early next week.
Accordingly we will attend ACAS next week to consider the LUL postion.
I will be in touch with you all after that.
In solidarity,
Dear fellow Night Tube staff
From next Wednesday, RMT stations and revenue staff will be refusing to work overtime, as part of our campaign to restore cut jobs and improve working conditions for all station staff. That includes us. I am writing to urge you to take part in this action - in order words, NOT to work overtime.
Further to my previous Circular (IR/317/16, 26th October 2016), the ballot has concluded with members voting as follows:-
Question: Are you prepared to take strike action?
Total Votes Cast 201
Number Voting ‘Yes’ 169
Number Voting ‘No’ 32
Spoilt Papers 0
Question: Are you prepared to take industrial action short of a strike?
Total Votes Cast 201
Number Voting ‘Yes’ 176
Number Voting ‘No’ 25
Spoilt Papers 0
Further to my previous Circular (IR/317/16, 26th October 2016), the ballot has concluded with members voting as follows:-
Question: Are you prepared to take strike action?
Total Votes Cast 1053
Number Voting ‘Yes’ 900
Number Voting ‘No’ 149
Spoilt Papers 4
Question: Are you prepared to take industrial action short of a strike?
Tube union RMT confirmed today that balloting has concluded in two separate disputes on London Underground with massive votes for action being recorded in both. Both disputes, tube station staff and Piccadilly Line drivers, have safety of passengers and staff at their core.
The disputes are:
The CSM2 job is now is seriously under threat as a result of some LU Area Managers lobbying hard behind the scenes for its abolition. RMT knows the CSM2 grade doesn't work - but not for the reasons being touted by managers. One idea being seriously canvassed is the merging of adjacent CSM2-type areas, with stations to be run by a CSS in exactly the same way as an SS2 used to until LU stupidly abolished SS grades to drive down pay, and this would likely be a CSS2; there are usually no Ops Rooms.