Pay

Pay awards and disputes

Fight now on 2024-5 pay!

LUL 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.

Thales workers vote on pay offer

RMT is recommending members working for Thales (GTS), a signalling and communications system contractor with numerous contracts on TfL/LUL, vote to accept the company's latest pay offer.

Last year, workers told their bosses a 5.5% offer for 2024 was not good enough. The new proposal adds a further...

New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online!

The latest edition of our bulletin, collating content from our blog, is now online. Click here to download the PDF.

This edition reviews the recent developments in the LUL pay dispute, and discusses the implications for union organisation on the job. Plus, an update on the ABM cleaners' ballot, and...

A lesson for Aslef on LUL?

Tubeworker is a pro-union publication, but we are not affiliated with any particular union on London Underground/TfL. However, we do support industrial unionism - the idea that workers in a particular industry/workplace should be in the same union, rather than organising in separate unions on the...

LUL pay: why we need transparent negotiations

All four LUL unions have now re-entered pay talks with the company, with Mayor Khan's promise of £30m extra funding now on the table. To ensure we get the best outcome possible, we need the maximum possible transparency in those talks.

Threat of strikes wins concessions: name more dates to keep the pressure on!

RMT has suspended the strikes planned for the rest of this week, after an intervention from City Hall which commits £30 million of new money to re-opened pay negotiations. In the coming days, Tubeworker will host contributions from LU workers giving different views and responses to the suspension...

LUL: strike to win a decent pay rise!

Our week of action is now underway, after an RMT reps' meeting rightly decided that some crumbs from the bosses' table weren't enough to cancel our strikes.

With no movement on the basic pay element of management's offer, which remains at 5%, and no flat-rate minimum for the lowest-paid, it's...

New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online!

The final edition of Tubeworker bulletin of 2023 is now online.

Click here to read the bulletin.

This edition looks forwards to strike over LUL pay in January, and encourages all readers to support ABM cleaners' industrial action ballot.

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