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Thales pay fight

RMT reps are in pay negotiations with Thales, a signalling and communications system contractor with numerous contracts on TfL/LUL. The company's pay offer is 7% for 2023, or 8% for those earning £30k, and 5.5% for 2024.

The union has rightly told Thales the offer is not good enough, and strikes...

Cleshar workers suspend strikes (for now) as bosses budge

Engineering workers employed by the contractor Cleshar on the East London Line, part of London Overground, suspended a strike planned for 12 October, after Cleshar upped its pay offer and made proposals for reducing working hours.

The revised offer doesn't fully meet union demands, though, so the...

5%? No way!

LUL has now made its "full and final offer" for 2023-4 pay to the unions. It's a 5% increase, backdated to April 2023. The offer contains no concessions on any of the unions' wider claims around terms and conditions, most of which LUL has dismissed as "unaffordable".

The company also proposes to...

Thales workers: vote yes for strikes!

Thales GTS workers are balloting for strikes, with the vote opening on 27 July and closing on 17 August.

Thales engineers provide technological support to LUL and other transport companies across a wide range of functions, including signaling and communication systems. Like many outsourced...

Building a mood on LUL pay

We were due a pay rise on LUL in April 2023. Negotiations are ongoing, with LUL's latest offer standing at 4%. So far no union has gone into dispute or begun preparations for a ballot.

We must not let management dictate the pace. Allowing negotiations to drag on and on only benefits the company...

June-July edition of Tubeworker now online

The latest edition of Tubeworker bulletin, collating content from our blog, is now online.

This edition argues for an immediate ballot over LUL pay, and reflects on our recent meeting on why LGBT+ equality is a union issue.

Click here to download the PDF.

LUL pay: ballot now!

LUL’s latest pay offer to our unions is for a 4% increase, covering 2023-2024.

The amount is well below inflation. The RPI rate of inflation in April 2023, the point at which our previous pay settlement expired, was 11.4%. A pay rise that is less than the rate of inflation is a pay cut.

Although...

3.3%? In the bin.

The first round of negotiations have now taken place, and LUL has offered unions the princely sum of 3.3% for our 2023/4 pay rise. They’ve dismissed claims for a reduction in the working week out of hand as “unaffordable”.

3.3% is miles behind inflation - currently at 13.5% at the time of writing...

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