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Please see the attached circular from the RMT regarding the planned industrial action.

The General Grades Committee has noted the correspondence on file and as a result, has taken the decision to call on all RMT Station Grades to take part in the industrial action detailed below.

• NOT TO WORK ANY OVERTIME from 05:30 hours on Sunday 3rd January 2016 until further notice.

Also, members are instructed to refuse to sign any contract or letter regarding working hours or agreements (with the exception of members on Fixed Term Contracts who should sign permanent contracts).

London Underground have failed to properly conduct a public consultation exercise over the closure of  ticket offices on the part of the network previously run by Silverlink, now LOROL.

They have set up an online email system to try and convince the regulators they are engaging with the public.

The RMT are absolutely against the closing of ticket offices and have conducted a near 2 year campaign to keep them.

We want to encourage all our members and their friends and families to take part in the consultation exercise.

Further to my previous Circular (IR/299/15, 4^th December 2015) there remains a number of areas of concern over London Underground’s Fit for the Future Stations (FFFS) proposals and the Lead Officer has written to LUL seeking assurances that there will be no imposition of a new framework agreement, that staff will not be forced to sign new contracts and that rosters will not be imposed. At the time of writing we have not yet received a response from LUL.  

The case for more members of staff on London Underground :

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RMT member, activist and LU Station Supervisor Glen Hart is being subjected to some of the worse bullying and harassment by London Underground Management ever seen!

Glen 20 years without blemish on LU has been suspended from work with his job threatened for the last 15 months; with Management inventing one story after another to find a way to do him in

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hard copies available at reps meeting on Tuesday and from Unity House

Fit for Future Bombshell - LUL threatens to impose FFFS

Demand for Members to Sign New Employment Contracts Echoes Company Plan

Defend Glen Hart

Stop the victimisation of RMT rep/activist Glen Hart by London Underground

The RMT are demonstrating against the unfair victimisation of Glen Hart who has been targeted solely because he is a RMT activist and he loses a station during last years OT ban because he had no relief.

LUL have since tried to discipline Glen with unfounded and untrue allegations.

LUL found no charge at the first CDI - immediately they produced another set of equally flimsy charges.

This time Glen is accused of being " horrible" to a manager

Read all about it!

Glen Harts demo looks to have hit the heady heights of front page news on OTM

Even the employers know this is a stitch up

Come and support the demo

Wednesday December 9 at Clapham Common Tube Stn 0800 - 1130

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RMT reps say pay offer falls short

The  overwhelming view of the reps at the meeting was that the pay offer fell short of what was wanted.
It was a below inflation 4 year deal that gave us no increase until year 4.
In year 1 we get about 2% , with strings and dependant on what salary you are on, but the RPI in April 2015, when we should have got our pay rise, was 2.5%,
In  years 2 & 3 RPI or 1% (whichever is greater) and year 4 only 0.25% above RPI.