London Underground Job Cuts Dispute 2010-11

NEWS RELEASE from the Greater London Assembly

The London Assembly today called on the Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) to rethink plans to cull up to 800 jobs on the Underground because of the adverse affects for passengers.

The Assembly believes the proposed cuts will damage customer service and leave passengers feeling less safe at stations where only one member of staff is present, particularly early in the morning and late at night.

Talks at ACAS today concentrated on setting up a review of London Underground's plans to 'reorganise' ie. cut jobs. The talks finished for the day shortly before 6pm, and will reconvene tomorrow at 1pm.

RMT negotiators will today attend ACAS to continue talks about our ongoing dispute with London Underground about job cuts. As talks ended last Tuesday, your union's position was as follows:

RMT accepts the invitation of ACAS to participate in the proposed review, beginning on Monday 18 October for two weeks.

Our industrial action remains on, but we will review it dependant on progress in these talks.

Talks between London Underground and the unions about job cuts will take place at ACAS on the afternoon of Tuesday 12 October. Check back to this website for progress reports.

As London Underground announces its intention to cut 800 unspecified 'support staff' jobs, Roy Carey, RMT rep for MATS (managers, admin, technical, support), says: "We in the RMT believe you should not feel intimidated, or living in fear when coming to work. The fear and threat of losing your job is something none of us need. We will fight every job cut."

Fight these job cuts - and you you are not already an RMT member - join!

My travel to and from work was quite severely disrupted on Monday 4 oct. But I do support your action

• People should not lose their jobs
• I really need a safe travel system
• I need safe stations
• Remembering the roles staff played in helping commuters on 7/7

All the best

Jennifer Mann

150 students from institutions including UCL, Westminster, Queen Mary, University of the Arts, LSE, South Bank, Kings, Birkbeck, London Met and Royal Holloway, met for a London-wide meeting of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts on 6 October. The meeting opened with a speech from RMT rep Becky Crocker, who NCAFC organisers had invited to talk about our campaign for jobs and safety.

You may be aware that LUL management have now announced an additional 800 job cuts on London Underground making the total job cuts to planned to 1600. This shows just how much of a crisis Boris Johnson and LUL have plunged the network into. Ironically many of these new redundancies are the very managers who volunteered to work during the previous strikes. Well that’s gratitude for you!

THE TUBE’S biggest union today slammed as “savagery” another huge tranche of up to 800 job cuts announced by London Underground

As LUL today revealed that it intends to sack another 400 staff and to leave a “similar number” of vacancies unfilled, on top of the 800 station staff already earmarked for the axe, RMT said its stand for jobs and safety had been completely vindicated.

RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: