Shorter working weeks

Union campaigns for reduced working hours - and employers' attempts to make workers pay

Special Requirements?

Remember the special events team? It has resurfaced as the 'special requirements team', and management want it to be paid for by the ticket office closures.

Excuse us, the 'special events team' was part of the stations shorter working week deal, and we (more than) paid for it then. LUL, obviously...

Ticket Office Impossible

Note to Central Line management ... If you justify slashing SAMF jobs at the largest station on your line (Bank) by closing one of its ticket offices, then it stands to reason that when you finally see sense and reopen the office, you have to bring back at least a couple of the jobs you cut...

All Gone To Cock

Cockfosters suffered staffing cuts when the shorter working week came in - although a concerted fight by local union activists meant they were much less severe than originally proposed.

But the effects of the cuts have now been made much worse by management inadequacy. A few examples: SAMF duties...

Action Against Cuts

Staff on Green Park group are organising for an official overtime ban because staffing cuts have made the situation so unbearable. Everyone should make sure they are in the RMT, vote Yes in the ballot, and make the action effective.

There are several other groups where the new staffing levels are...

Emergency Response?

The ERU are still waiting for their 35-hour week to be implemented. Management have come up with a way of calculating the banked rest days which produces a strangely low result.

Management also want to block loads more of the leave than previously, so people get much less control over when they are...

Service control: latest

Service control review ... We are still waiting for news on the mapping (ie. who's going where) and the promotional positions. Why is it taking so long? Why is the union not keeping people better informed about what is happening?

Uncertainty is very stressful, and although no-one is going to be...

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