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Piccadilly Line strike announced

BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TRAIN OPERATORS

PICCADILLY LINE – LONDON UNDERGROUND

Further to previous correspondence, all Piccadilly Line Driver members are congratulated for the solid yes vote for both strike action and action short of a strike in this dispute. Following special Branch meetings, the National Executive Committee has considered this matter and taken the decision to call on you and your colleagues to take strike action by not booking on for any shifts that commence between:-

Edgware Road Safety News

Edgware Road Safety News has the latest important issues from your RMT H&S rep.

In this edition:

  • We Still Don’t Know If This System Is Safe 
  • HMS Familiarisation: Nothing Agreed Yet
  • 50mph Target Speed Into HMS Dt! 
  • Platform Strike 
  • Beeping Noise 
  • Issues From 30 May Meeting With Management
  • Latimer Road Facilities/timings 
  • 'Amnesty': It’s Ok To Make Mistakes

The newsletter is attached for you to download.

Jubilee dispute ends as RMT secures more weekend rest days for drivers

We note the report from the Lead Officer regarding the proposal from management.

We congratulate our Members, Negotiations Team, Lead Officer and both Jubilee Line Branches on fighting for and achieving this proposal from the company that addresses the issues of the dispute by returning the rest days management took away as a consequence of their imposed roster which will now be returned under our current agreements.

Further, we instruct the General Secretary to write to the company advising them of our acceptance of the proposal and that we are no longer in dispute.

Upgrades News June 2018

Upgrades News is for drivers on the sub-surface railway. It has all the latest information abouit signalling upgrades on the Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Circle and District Lines.  In this edition:

  • Hammersmith ‘sidings’ concerns raised
  • Target Speed Error 
  • ATO train strikes platform
  • ‘Myth busting’ meeting report 
  • Signal abnormality discovered 

Please download and distribute in your workplace, or share online.

Jubilee News: dispute special

Jubilee News is a special newsletter for drivers on the Jubilee Line, produced by RMT activists.

In this edition:

  • Management offer increase in Saturday rest days
    The RMT National Executive will debate and make a formal decision about the offer from LU early next week

  • The detail of the offer from LUL​

  • ACAS - An insider’s report

  • ​RMT tells LU 'end the bullying culture' following ET loss
  • Check your details

  • Executive report: Ballot prepared for all LUL grades over unfair sacking

Jubilee strike suspended

We note the progress made in dispute talks at ACAS today; and that the company has moved considerably toward resolving the dispute they have created.pp

Accordingly, we suspend strike action due to take place from 00:01 to 23:59 on Thursday 14th June 2018.

We remain in dispute and will be at ACAS tomorrow morning for further talks with the company.

Members to be advised by email and text.

Neasden and Jubilee Line South Branches and the London Transport Regional Council to be advised.

Central News: union threatens to ballot as management ignore conderns

Central News is the newsletter for train drivers on the Central Line. It is produced by RMT activists.

In this edition:

- ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - UNION THREATENS TO BALLOT AS MANAGEMENT IGNORES CONCERNS
- Bullying has to stop
- Not enough drivers
- Safety Reps being prevented from representing their
members
- Rainbow procedure returns and agreements are ripped up
- Night Tube issues
- The Waterloo and City Line

Please download the newsletter and distribute it in your Central Line depot, and share this article online.

Jubilee Line strike suspended

Subject: INTRODUCTION OF WTT15 – TRAIN OPERATORS – JUBILEE LINE, LONDON UNDERGROUND

We note the progress made in dispute talks at ACAS up to today; and that the company has moved considerably toward resolving the dispute they have created.

Accordingly, we suspend strike action due to take place from 00:01 to 23:59 on Wednesday 6th June 2018, and instruct Members to work normally.

The Strike Action already set and notified from 00:01 to 23:59 on Thursday 14th June 2018 remains on and we are available for further talks with the company.

Piccadilly Line drivers to be balloted for strike action

SUBJECT: BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TRAIN OPERATORS, PICCADILLY LINE – LONDON UNDERGROUND

We note the report from our Lead Officer that the company have failed to address our concerns around chronic understaffing, lack of resources, draconian use of the attendance procedures, obstruction of our representative trades union duties, undue pressure upon our Drivers from Service Control managers and managements failure to honour a number of commitments given during previous disputes; especially relating to stock, training and SPAD management.