Tube bosses’ attacks slowed but not stopped
Unions have slowed London Underground’s drive to casualise its workforce -but by avoiding mistakes, they could have stopped it. For the first time, TSSA was willing to join RMT in holding a strike ballot, and the unions were united in their demands and strategies. And RMT took the right step in calling an all-grades strike ballot. Members of the two unions voted 81% and 83% respectively for strikes; the Executives called a 72-hour strike. The pressure forced the employer to abandon “mobile supervision” of stations, to withdraw a new, weaker procedure for workers refusing to work on safety...