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Green Park & Euston Areas ballot result

12th of April, 2022

Dear Colleagues,

BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, GREEN PARK & EUSTON AREAS (VICTORIA CENTRAL GROUP) – LONDON UNDERGROUND

I write to advise you that the ballot has now closed and the result is as follows:-

 

Are you prepared to take strike action?

Number of individuals who were entitled to vote in the ballot: 85

Number of votes cast in the ballot: 52     

Number of individuals answering “Yes” to the question: 42

Number of individuals answering “No” to the question: 10

Instead of a recommended approach and implementation plan, pension report is an assortment of attacks

Dear Colleague,

TFL PENSION FUND - INDEPENDENT REVIEW

I refer to my previous correspondence, 2Oth December 2021, you will be aware that Sir Brendan Barber the head of the Review Commission looking into the TfL Pension Fund submitted the final report on 28th March 2022.

RMT Strike and opposition to pension cuts have rocked management’s timetable for 'reform'

  • This text is taken from the attached newsletter. Please download, print and distribute it in your LU / TfL workplace

Strikes and opposition to pension cuts have rocked management’s timetable for so-called reform of our pensions. When Brendon Barber took on the review of the TfL pension fund the terms of reference said he would refine proposals and outline a timetable for implementation by 31 March 2022. 

NEC congratulates members at Wood Lane

BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, FIELD SERVICE ENGINEERS, WOOD LANE SIGNALS DEPOT - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)

Further my previous Circular (IR/439/21), dated 16th December 2021, I advised that progress was being made on the key point of this dispute and it had been confirmed that Field Service Engineers would no longer be asked to cover Duty Engineers.

Green Park and Euston Area members to be balloted

BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, GREEN PARK & EUSTON AREAS - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)

Subsequent to my previous Circular (IR/058/22), dated 21st February 2022, the National Executive Committee took the decision to enter into a dispute with LUL and ballot members over the unacceptable bullying and intimidating behaviour towards RMT members and Representatives.

Pic Line drivers balloted over training concerns

REDUCED DRIVER TRAINING - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/11/1)

Further to my previous Circular (IR/048/22), dated 11th February 2022, the Piccadilly and District West RMT Branch submitted a resolution regarding the unacceptable imposition of poor-quality training on the Piccadilly Line.

This matter has been considered by the National Executive Committee which took the decision to enter a dispute with London Underground and to ballot all Piccadilly Line Train Operators for industrial action to demand that training standards are maintained.

We will not accept 'managed decline' of jobs, working arrangements or pensions

In the run up to ACAS talks between London Underground and RMT, National Executive Committee rep Jared Wood says:

"we are not prepared to accept the managed decline of our public transport system, we are not prepared to accept the managed decline of services and we are not prepared to accept the managed decline of jobs, working arrangements or pensions."