TfL and London Underground announce plans to furlough some workers

Dear RMT members

Following on from my message yesterday, at the bottom of this message, I have attended both the LUL Company council and Tfl Company council this afternoon.

Both employers have told us that to assist with catastrophic loss of finances Tfl will make use of the Governments "Job Retention scheme"  which provides up Financial support to employers hit by the Coronavirus crisis.

To this end TfL/ LUL have stated that they will Furlough some staff. They are still working through who, but it will essentially be non operational,  or work ceased employees and potentially some staff who are shielding.

Critically they have guaranteed 100% of all jobs, salaries, pensions and terms of conditions will remain unaffected for all of their staff.

Tfl / LUL will be writing to us to confirm this.

Next week there will be further updates.

Thanks,

John Leach

RMT Regional Organiser

 

 

 

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16th of April 2020

Dear RMT members

At 5pm today myself and NEC member Jared Wood attended a Tfl briefing by Directors on the impact of the Corona virus on revenue and finance in Tfl.

Tfl told us that they have been hit catastrophically by the loss of revenue and also are spending £600million every 4 weeks keeping Tfl operating.

Tfl have been in talks with the government on financial support and those negotiations are still in hand.

Emergency company councils have been called tomorrow.

I told the meeting that whilst we are rising to the challenges of the crisis we will not allow any of this to be an attack on our hard won terms, conditions or wellbeing at work.

As soon as we know more I will update you.

Thanks,

John Leach RMT