Submitted by Anon on 12 January, 2005 - 5:59
Strike action by London Underground signal and line-control staff which threatened to disrupt New Year services was called off when their union, the RMT, made a deal with management.
The deal has to be voted on but it will give signallers and line-control staff a 35-hour week from July, and staged increases in pay, according to the RMT, to between £31,450 for an ordinary signaller and £44,000 at the top end of the line-control scale by July 2007.
There is also no longer any threat of job losses — one of the big impetuses behind the dispute. Also, rostering will remain subject to local negotiation. And LUL has withdrawn proposals to cut minimum rest periods between shifts to 11 hours.
