London Underground Job Cuts Dispute 2010-11

We kicked off on Tuesday evening with a protest outside Boris Johnson's 'People's Question Time'.

This message was sent to TSSA, FBU and NUJ as well as to ourselves.

Dear brothers and sisters,

Just a short note to show you our unconditional support for your strikes and that we're encouraging our members to do the same - see below.

In solidarity, Max Watson Chair, London Met Uni UNISON Branch

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Dear UNISON members,

I support the strike. Somehow, the message has to get out to the public, but at the moment I'm afraid the right-leaning press, Metro included, is making it all out to be a money-grabbing exercise and people are buying it. Good luck. Eddie de Oliveira

Hello RMT and tube workers

I fully support the retention of staffing at tube stations because of the following:-

1. Personal safety, CCTV cannot be a substitute for having a responsible person on site to help people especially lone female passengers.

2. Rail safety, supervisors have safety duties to do with points and other equipment, who will be on the ground to deal with this?

3. Ticketing, machines break, also they are difficult for some people to use i.e. those with learning disabilities, sight problems and people from different countries.

I would like to congratulate members on the magnificent support they have shown in today’s strike.

Despite all the propaganda put out by management hardly any trains are running and most of these are ‘ghost’ trains that cannot stop anywhere as the stations are closed.

RMT functional and safety council reps attended ACAS last week to take part in talks with London Underground management about the company's planned cuts to jobs.

Suspend cuts and we will halt strikes, say RMT and TSSA

STRIKE ACTION by more than 11,000 members of RMT and TSSA, the two biggest unions on London Underground, will go ahead tomorrow evening after Tube bosses again failed to suspend their “dangerous and unnecessary” plan to axe 800 safety critical station staff.

Engineering staff will start their third 24-hour strike at 19.00 tomorrow (November 2), while operational staff will not book on for shifts scheduled to start from 21.00. A fourth 24-hour stoppage is scheduled for November 28 and 29.

An appeal from RMT and TSSA to admin and other staff who have volunteered as 'Incident' CSAs/SSs: read the text below or click '2 attachments' / file names to download a leaflet and poster.

We are facing a massive attack on public transport in London.

The 800 operational job cuts at London Underground are just the tip of the iceberg - thousands more jobs are at risk across TfL.

And we all know that cutting jobs means cutting services and compromising on safety.

THE TUBE’S biggest union, RMT, today welcomed condemnation of the London Mayor’s plans to cut 2,000 Underground jobs, put down in parliament by London MPs.

A motion tabled by John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington) and Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North), calls on the mayor to drop proposals that have already been denounced by the Greater London Assembly and have raised “severe concerns” from London TravelWatch.