The all-grades battle for decent pay, against job cuts, and to stop management bullying - in the face of management using the economic recession as an excuse for a clampdown.
London Underground is to slash its spending on maintaining the ex-Metronet lines.
LUL has claimed that it can achieve these cuts without compromising safety. Excuse us while we roll round the floor laughing.
With the...
Fresh from implying that we are 'greedy' for not wanting a pay cut, Boris Johnson has been embarrased by a deputy caught abusing the City Hall credit card for his own comforts.
He seems rather less embarrassed by his Chief Executive's 11% pay rise and by his own £78 per hour salary.
In the...
As an ASLEF member I was disgusted to see that my union had written to its members advising them to cross RMT picket lines and go to work during the recent 48-hour strike. Our traditional stance has always been to remind members to act in accordance with the best traditions of the labour movement -...
Predictably the daily newspapers, from London free sheets to “serious” national broadsheets, have portrayed the strike negatively and largely put across management's case (usually while trying to maintain a veneer of objectivity).
A look at Tuesday's London Paper illustrates this nicely.
The...
The strike has got off to a good start, with management unable to get services running until well into the morning peak, and then only little token shuttles which are mainly for PR reasons.
Yesterday came the shocking news that RMT and management had reached a deal at ACAS, only for management to...
In several ways, this dispute has been run better than previous ones, but in other ways, there is still room for improvement.
What's better:
News this morning is that management have gone to ACAS. Given that they offered nothing in yesterday's talks, we can only assume that this is a PR exercise to make them look like the conciliatory ones and us look unreasonable ie. the opposite of the truth! Unless London Underground management behave...
At negotiations on Friday, management moved on pay. Feeling the pressure, they have now put a two year deal on the table. RMT members should feel proud that their effort so far has scuppered management's pipe dream of a pay freeze over the Olympics.
But not a word so far on job security. We would...
Predictably enough, management made a little concession at yesterday's talks. Given that it was our preparation for a strike that got us this far, pressing ahead is the only way to win more.
Management's 5-year offer was rightly described by ASLEF as "too flippant to bother responding to", although...
We’ve done it again! Another ‘yes’ vote. This time, with almost 86% in favour of strike action. With two ‘yes’ votes under our belt, we can show management beyond doubt that we are determined to fight. Despite management’s legal challenge and intensive ‘anti-strike’ campaign, we know our minds and...
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