Tube: Fight now on next year’s pay
Tube unions remain in negotiations with the company over how to distribute the £30 million of additional funding secured thanks to RMT’s threatened week of action from 5-11 January. Various proposals are in circulation, some involving a higher percentage pay rise, others increasing the base percentage rise only slightly whilst adding an additional flat-rate, tiered by grade. RMT is rightly pushing for a final settlement based on the latter model, to ensure the lower-paid grades — i.e., the people who need a pay rise most — benefit more. Tubeworker has argued that we should name additional...