Reports and updates from Regional organiser John Leach
As I reported yesterday we met with the LUL Managing Director. This is an updated list of issues and demands that we made in the meeting. This morning I spoke to him again on the phone and emphasised the need to support the staff and contractors across the Underground.
Dear RMT members,
This afternoon we met the Managing Director and other directors of TfL to discuss the Covid 19 virus and its impact on our members of all companies working on the underground during the current crisis.
To all LUL Region Branches
Dear Colleagues
JUSTICE FOR TUBE CLEANERS
As you know we are balloting our ABM members for strike action to secure Staff Travel, proper Sick Pay and a decent Pension for all.
The ballot opens this Monday 28th October with a closing date of Tuesday 19th November 2019. Myself and our National Executive Committee member, Andy Littlechild are calling a meeting for all Branch Secretaries and Chairs on Monday 28th October commencing at 14.00 hours in Unity House.
Dear RMT members,
Today myself and our reps met LUL to discuss pay 2019. The company made the offer as attached.
We immediately responded by saying that the RMT would seek to meet all our reps to discuss the offer. Therefore we cannot formally respond in this update. However, I stated that all pay deals in LUL are RPI linked in the past. Also, any banked rest days can only be taken in line with our agreements.
We still have some way to go in these pay talks.
As soon as our NEC has considered the position there will be a further update.
Thanks,
RMT representatives met London Underground management today at ACAS.
Significantly, LUL management has now agreed that they share RMT’s aspiration to reduce working hours for all LUL staff.
LUL management made a revised verbal offer, to be confirmed in writing:
The RMT's Regional Organiser John Leach has written to London Underground to highlight our ongoing concerns about red tabards following an article in LU's propoganda magazine 'On The Move.'
John Leach wrote to remind tube bosses that we remain in dispute and to request a meeting about claims made in the article.
The Letter
Jean Cockerill
Human Resources Director
London Underground Ltd
Palestra
7th Floor, 197 Blackfriars Road
London
SE1 8NJ
16th May 2019
Dear Jean
- The latest pay offer from London Underground is attached to this article.
Dear RMT members,
A new revised pay offer has been sent out London Underground. This offer has not been discussed, but follows on from last week's pay talks.
The RMT executive committee will discuss the offer soon and give the RMT position on it.
There is still nothing from the company for members covered by Tubelines collective bargaining arrangements.
I've told LUL we are available on the 5th of June.
The offer has been put in the public domain by London Underground.
Dear RMT members
Today myself with RMT reps, and the other Trade Unions met LUL face to face for the 6th meeting we’ve had in this years Pay talks.
Despite our strong representation in the meeting the company made no revised/ improved offer. Rather they once again pleaded poverty. We told them in no uncertain terms that our members would not be paying for either the government or the mayor's financial starvation or incompetence.
At the end of the day long meeting LUL said they were preparing a revised offer and that they would send it to us next Thursday 30th.
London Underground are attempting to ram through a new swathe of job cuts and are walking all over our agreements to do it! This is happening in the following areas: Track Access Control, Power Control, Service Control, LUCC, Skills Development, Waste, Pumps, Stations Buildings & Civils and Signals Incidents.
The RMT's London Transport Regional Organiser John Leach has written a letter to the Head of London Underground Employee Relations.
LUL TRANSFORMATION
Dear Colleagues,
RMT Secures 550 Jobs
I am pleased to announce that RMT have secured 550 cleaner jobs on ABM the chosen London Underground cleaning contract supplier.
This is an important victory in the fight for jobs and workplace justice for London Underground cleaners as the TFL contractors ABM were forced by a sustained campaign of union pressure to reinstate 550 posts into their headcount.