RMT to ballot over Tube pay

RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2025 - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/0001)

Further to my previous Circular (IR/179/25, 14th May 2025), I advised LUL of the dispute situation over breaches of the 2023 and 2024 agreements and the failure to table a 2025 pay offer. Talks with the Company took place on Wednesday 28th May but no pay offer was forthcoming. LUL also stated that a reduction in the working week is not on the table, there is no progress on the extension of Priv travel and no proposal regarding converting any banded salary range into a spot salary.

ABM Joint Negotiating Body Update

4th June 2025

To: All ABM (LUL Cleaning Contract)

Dear RMT Member,

On 2nd June, your RMT Reps and Lead Officer attended the ABM JNB (Joint Negotiating Body). This is a forum where your Reps can raise matters that affect all divisions with Directors and Senior ABM Management.

Your Reps discussed a number of important issues and I have outlined the outcomes reached at the meeting below.

 

Problems with getting Contractor Staff Passes renewed

ABM Pay Claim 2025

RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2025 - ABM (LU CLEANING CONTRACT) (LUL/0001/ABM)

In line with Union policy, a claim was submitted for a substantial increase in rates of pay and improvements to conditions of service. The Lead Officer has submitted a report, along with correspondence from ABM, stating it is unwilling to discuss our pay claim as members have already received an increase this year in line with the London Living Wage uplift.

Tube Pay Update: LU Must Address Concerns Over Working Hours

23rd May 2025

Dear RMT Member

RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2025 - LONDON UNDERGROUND

RMT continues to press LUL to address our 2025 pay claim. The anniversary date for our pay deal is 1st April, yet management has only now agreed to even met us. The meeting will take place on 28 May, two months after you should have received the pay rise.

RMT will demand that LUL acts urgently to make good on the parts of our previous pay deals that the company has failed to deliver.

·Changing banded salaries to spot rates

RMT at Birmingam Pride

Dear Colleague,

BIRMINGHAM PRIDE - 24 MAY 2025

LGBT+ Pride events are opportunities for us to promote the union and our campaigns as well as to show support and solidarity for our LGBT+ members and the wider community.

Birmingham Pride is taking place on 24th May and the RMT Midlands Region will be walking in the parade as usual. Everyone is welcome and can just turn up on the day, meeting from 11.45am at Centenary Square, Birmingham

There will also be a social gathering afterwards.

Defending Jobs, Pensions and Agreements dispute update

strike flag

Dear RMT Member,

DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND

All RMT members are congratulated for supporting the action which has been continuous throughout this dispute to refuse to familiarise staff who do not usually work at a location, not to train staff for roles that are outside of their normal substantive role and not to undertake training that is outside of your normal substantive role.

RMT demands minimum £15 an hour for Sodexo members on TfL

Dear All,

RMT - Sodexo Latest Bulletin

RMT has recently submitted a pay claim to Sodexo, which holds the outsourced catering contract for TfL.

The main elements in the claim are:

  • A minimum wage of £15/hour for all staff
  • A specific increase for supervisory grade staff to reflect their additional responsibilities
  • An increasing in the staffing level to minimise lone working

RMT representatives for LU fleet and trains members can help build the union on the catering contract by: