Every Job Matters - Defending London Underground Jobs

EVERY JOB MATTERS – DEFENDING JOBS ON LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/5)
 
Further to my previous Circular (IR/299/15, 4th 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. 
 

We note the report on file from the Lead Officer and we instruct the General Secretary to instruct our Station Grades members to carry out an overtime ban from 05:30 hours on Sunday 3rd January 2016 until further notice. And to refuse (from the date of this decision) to sign any contract or letter regarding working hours or agreements ( with the exception of  members on Fixed Term Contracts who should sign permanent contract) We resolve to take the struggle for every job matters into the new year  until our just demands on pay and conditions are met.

Fit for the Future Update from CCSG 17.12.15

At Company Council Sub Group today LU presented us with a further update to their Framework proposals. The proposals as they now stand remain unacceptable to us but some significant progress has been made this week on certain issues.

Changes to Duties at short notice

Dear RMT members,

LUL Pay and Night Tube 2015/Every Job Matters ( Fit for the Future Stations) Regional Organisers update

This morning myself and Council of Executives member John Reid reported back developments on the above issues  to assembled LUL RMT reps from across all 7 Functions on LUL.

LU has threatened to impose Fit for the Future by demanding all station staff sign new employment contracts. Regional Organiser, John Leach has issued clear advce not to sign anynew contract. The only exception to this is for fixed term members offered a new permanent contract.

The company has also tabled new demands that management be able to change any duty with 24 hours notice. RMT will not accept ths. Council of Executives member John Ried has made clear that strike action will be called if LU try to impose a framework, rosters or contracts.

RMT's London Transport Regional Organiser John Leach has written to London Underground to reiterate the unions demand that plans to cut hundreds of front line jobs be ditched following the recent violent attack at Leytonstone station.

Leytonstone station which was the scene of Saturdays horrific knife attack, will lose half its rush hour staff from February under proposed new rosters. The Leytonstone cuts are part of an overall package from early next year which would strip 838 front-line, uniformed station staff out of the tube system.

RMT demands moratorium on station job cuts as union reveals that Leytonstone will lose half its rush hour staff in February.

TUBE UNION RMT today demanded that London Underground halt its station job cuts programme as the union revealed that Leytonstone station, scene of Saturdays horrific knife attack, will lose half its rush hour staff from February under proposed new rosters. The Leytonstone cuts are part of an overall package from early next year which would strip 838 front-line, uniformed station staff out of the tube system.

RMT warns of continuing tube overcrowding danger as it emerges that Oxford Circus was closed 112 times in past year

General Secretary Mick Cash said;

"The news today that Oxford Circus has had to be closed 112 times in the past year due to severe overcrowding is the clearest warning yet that the tube netwo‎rk is bursting at the seams. It also confirms that the only buffer between that overcrowding and a major tragedy is station and platform staff taking life-or-death decisions to manage the massive pressure on the system.