Written for train drivers, by train drivers

July 2015 Strike Special www.rmtlondoncalling.org.uk

RMT Tube Members Vote For Strike

Pay & Night Tube Offer Strongly Rejected
Here are some of the issues we are fighting:

The below inflation pay rise in year one

as well as a no strike deal

Increased unsociable hours weekend

and night working

An end to any meaningful work/life

balance for members

Removing/diluting our hard won

negotiated agreements

LUL has offered us a measly pay rise, and a

small one off payment for Night Tube shifts
which will change our work life balance for the
rest of our working lives on the tube.

All grades will be taking industrial action over

this issue and we'll be striking alongside our
sister unions in ASLEF, TSSA and UNITE in what
will be the biggest industrial action the tube
The membership of the RMT and other unions has seen in decades.
has rejected this with a clear vote for strike If you have questions about the upcoming
action. In the spirit of Unity the National action speak to your rep or attend your branch
Executive has called joint action to that of our meeting - contact details of functional reps are
sister Union ASLEF.
also on the reverse of this newsletter.
When the RMT began negotiations with LUL on
WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?
Pay and Night Tube our aspirations were clear It
is
important
now to show Unity and show
a substantial increase in rates of pay and
management
that
their workforce is not
improvements to conditions of service. Strong
willing
to
put
up
with
a substandard offer
industrial action will put the pressure on
and
implementation
of
rubbish Night Tube
London Underground bosses to up the offer,
deal.
Go
along
to
your
next
Branch or Train
and improve conditions for Night Tube
Grades
Meeting
and
visit
your
workplace
working.
picket lines. UNITY IS STRENGTH!

Train Operator and Instructor Operator members are instructed not to

book on for any duties that commence between: - 21.30 hours
Wednesday 8th July 2015 and 21.29 hours Thursday 9th July 2015

 Unity between unions

Pay offer rejected
Night tube what does it mean?
Fit for the Future Strikes

Unity Between Unions

RMT, TSSA, ASLEF
and Unite are
taking joint action
against London
Underground's
poor pay offer and
attack on our
terms and conditions which the current Night
Tube arrangements threaten.

future, we might not earn an extra 3%.

RMT has been making significant gains for our
members outside LUL with a recent settlement
on DLR resulting in a 2% pay rise this year with
RPI plus 0.25% or 1.5%(whichever is higher) in
years 2 and 3. Along with this staff have been
granted additional annual leave.
As well as housing costs, bills and food costs
continue to go up too.

This will be the biggest strike on London

Underground in years as the anger against Night Tube What We Want
tube bosses is at the highest level it has been
Without a deal Night Tube will mean the
for along time.
devastation of your work/life balance with
Together we can deliver a killer blow against many more additional nights being rostered
managements plan. Bosses have already called with no compensatory time off or monetary
for urgent ACAS talks, and we need to maintain compensation apart from the pathetic 750 on
the pressure on them. Join the picket lines offer. The Union has demanded
and show that we want a fair pay deal and
decent conditions for working Night Tube.

a consolidated(pensionable) pay rise

for any changes to agreements needed
to facilitate all night running

Time off in lieu and a compensatory

payment for Night Tube duties.

An immediate freeze on weekend

working with a longer term solution to
reduce weekend working for the period
of any deal

Pay Offer Rejected

London Undergrounds current pay offer is for
a rise of 0.75% in year 1 and an increase of RPI
in year two. That could mean that in real terms
pay will drop in year 1 and then remain
stagnant for year 2.

This is at a time when living costs in London

continue to rise dramatically. RightMove
estimate that over the next 5 years house Stations & Fleet Strike Too
prices will increase by 30% to an average of
Whilst introducing Night Tube, LUL are
715,000 in London. If the pay offer that tube
pressing ahead with massive cuts to stations
bosses have made is accepted and repeated in
staff who are there to make sure that the
railway runs safely. In a separate dispute,
Industrial reps:
H&S reps:
station members have delivered a massive
Dean O'Hanlon
Jim McDaid
mandate for action to fight back against these
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attacks which are a threat to all tube workers.
Will Reid
Nigel Eivers
Fleet are also taking action against the use of
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agency workers being employed as trainers. It
Vaughan Thomas
Dave Rayfield
is unity which will win these battles.
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