Defending and improving conditions

That we note the report on file from the lead officer stating that all planned engineering work scheduled to take place during our proposed strike action is now cancelled.

Further, we note a mass meeting of our affected members is to take place tonight, Wednesday 21st November 2012 at which the assistant General Secretary will be in attendance.

Therefore, we instruct the General Secretary to suspend all strike action planned to take place on or after 0600hrs on Friday 23rd November 2012 and 0559hrs Saturday 24th November 2012.

This document is for "Employees of TfL, Docklands Light Railway Limited, Rail for London Limited, London Bus Services Limited, London Buses Limited, Victoria Coach Station Limited who are on TfL employment contracts (Pay bands 1 – 5) and those staff on predecessor organisation employment contracts where the individual has transferred to the employment of TfL. For the avoidance of doubt this policy does not apply to employees of London Underground and operational employees in Surface Transport."

It covers the following:

This document is a guide for managers at TfL Corporate, Surface Transport & London Rail on how to assist workers whose travel to work is affected by adverse weather such as snow.

Read it below or download the original document attached.
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Guidance note for managers
Employees affected by travel disruptions caused by snow
TfL Corporate, Surface Transport & London Rail

We note that the two reports instructed by our two previous decisions have still not been submitted, and instruct the General Secretary to obtain these reports without any further delay.

We rename this file TRANSFER OF MEMBERS: LONDON UNDERGROUND TO TfL.

London Transport Regional Council and TfL no.1 branch to be advised.

We note the report from our Regional Organiser and the responses from our representatives, expressing dissatisfaction with the company’s position. Accordingly, we instruct the General Secretary to seek talks with London Underground Ltd on this matter, and to place any developments in front of us.

London Transport Regional Council and branches to be advised.

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Noting that our LU Engineering and LU Fleet branches meet today and tomorrow respectively, we instruct the General Secretary to place this matter back in front of us on Thursday 22 or Tuesday 27 November.

We note correspondence from our cleaning grade secretary requesting that following the transfer of cleaning members on London Underground to Vinci, we pursue a dispute on this contract.

We therefore instruct the General Secretary to urgently convene a meeting of our representatives on the Vinci contract to discuss how to progress this. A report of this meeting is to be placed in front of us as soon as is practical.

London Transport Regional Council and branches to be advised.

As I understand it, the main current issues facing drivers are:

• a clampdown on discipline and attendance
• LUL refusing to confirm that Met line T/Ops only will operate the S7 train on the Met line
• plans to deploy I/Ops on lines other than their own and/or to cross-train other lines' T/Ops or
  I/Os as occurred on the Met line
• new drivers being repeatedly moved from depot to depot
• the possible development of a pool of drivers covering a larger area than just one depot, or
  even one line

We note the views of our TfL no.1 branch on the pay offer from Transport for London.

We affirm the branch’s view that RMT should not accept TfL's pay offer. We do not support Performance-Related Pay, and we will not endorse part of our members' pay rise in the second year of this deal being conditional on us accepting a PRP policy that we have not even seen yet.

RMT is disappointed that other unions have accepted the offer and not taken up our request to pursue our concerns.

We note the correspondence from London Underground Ltd concerning Boxing Day working arrangements for drivers. We strongly oppose the company’s position, as it seeks to establish the principle of drivers being able to, in effect, sell their annual leave entitlement.

We instruct the General Secretary to obtain a report on the views of our trains representatives concerning ASLEF’s dispute with LUL on Boxing Day working.

London Transport Regional Council and branches to be advised.