Bakerloo branch

Please click on the link to download the September edition of the Bakerloo News. Main article follows:

Round one to RMT and TSSA!

The magnificent strike supported by Bakerloo RMT and TSSA members alike showed London Underground that we mean business in our defence of jobs and safety. The Bakerloo Branch would also like to salute our friends and colleagues in ASLEF, who respected our picket lines and showed that they too, understand the importance of this dispute for the future of the Underground.

The attaced document is an open letter to our ASLEF collegues on the Bakerloo Line.

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The main article follows:

RMT & TSSA unite to fight for jobs and safety!

RMT & TSSA members have sent a resounding NO to management’s plans to cut jobs and undermine safety on London Underground. With a yes vote for strike action of over 75%, the unions have announced a joint rolling campaign of strike action starting on Monday 6th September with an overtime ban for all grades at the same time.

Hot on the heels of the ASLEF/LUL 2009 Agreement which saw driver numbers slashed with spare turns and pool staff decimated comes the next round of attacks on the grade.

London Underground are now axing even more drivers when the next timetable changes are introduced across the combine.

Jimmy Reid, one of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) "work-in" in 1971-72 died August 10th 2010, aged 78. When the Heath government proposed closing down all 5 of the shipyards in Glasgow the workers fought back by organising a 'work in', a political campaign to stop the closures which would have blighted thousands of lives and the city of Glasgow itself.

When he stood as a candidate to be the Rector of Glasgow University the New York Times printed his speech in its entirety and said it was the most important speech since Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Click on the link to read it in full: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_167194_en.pdf

Just to say that I was saddened to hear of the proposed staff cuts on the Bakerloo line. When I last used Warwick Avenue station, the member of staff topped up my Oyster card quicker than I could have done (I was running late as usual).

I have emailed the below message to the helpandcontact page of tfl.gov.uk website and shall email the same to the Mayor. I have printed off the petition and shall collect signatures and send in also.

Good luck and best wishes, Charlotte Keech

"I wanted to protest vigorously at the planned cut of staff at Warwick Avenue Station.

"This very busy station is important to all its users- tourists, locals, business people travelling at peak times. It has been the target of many incidents prevented by the attendance of its vigilant and kind staff

"I feel that it is important to keep it adequately staffed at all times."

Ann Futter

The new Health & Safety rep on the Wembley Central Group, Alan Foster has raised the issue of places of safety for staff on the gateline. On London Underground the standard place of safety is the GLAP. But when LU took over the control of the silver link stations north of Queens Park in 2007 none were put in. Management were quick enough off the mark to bring in gate lines to maximise revenue but the safety of the staff working the gate lines was deemed secondary.