As tube cleaners ballot for action RMT reveals they would have to work 20 years to earn a TfL executive’s annual pay packet.

As tube union RMT ballots Tube cleaners for industrial action for pay justice the union has revealed that an Underground cleaner would have to work for nearly 20 years to earn the £374,000 TfL’s highest executive makes in just one year, while it would take them 246 years to earn the £4.5 million the CEO of the US outsourcing company that employs them pulls in annually.

Bakerloo News is the newsletter for Bakerloo Line workers and is produced by RMT activists.

In this edition:

• Cleaners: vote yes for strikes!
• Spikes versus netting?
• Timetable saga drags on

Please download the attached document to read it and share it online or print it out and distribute it in your Bakerloo Line workplace.

STRIKE PAY FOR RMT ABM TUBE CLEANERS! 

 The RMT NEC has just unanimously agreed an INITIAL £100,000 for hardship payments for striking Tube Cleaner Members!

 "That we note the call to support our ABM members and Instruct the General Secretary to initially ring-fence £100k for hardship payments to our members who participated in strike action. This is to be kept under review."

 Together We Are Stronger!

 JUSTICE FOR TUBE CLEANERS!

Jubilee South branch have produced a special newsletter as part of our efforts to build the ABM Tube cleaners' ballot. Cleaners are being balloted in a fundamental fight for free staff travel, decent pensions and sick pay.

 In this edition:

• ABM Cleaners Prepare to Fight Back

• For Pensions, Sick Pay And Free Travel

• The Law and taking strike action

• Free Staff Travel

• Company sick pay

• Decent pensions

• Ballot to win justice begins

29 October 2019

VOTING PAPERS ARRIVING THIS WEEK!

Dear colleague

JUSTICE FOR ABM CLEANERS

The ballot to win justice for you and your colleagues at ABM opened yesterday so you should be receiving your voting papers in the next couple of days.

The new RMT union app provides easy access to the latest news, campaigns and events. It is also a simple way to join the union (very useful for recruitment) and to update your personal details and find essential contact details.

RMT App – How do I log in?

You will need to have first registered via the RMT website; www.rmt.org.uk

TUBE UNION RMT has confirmed that a strike vote involving cleaners the length and breadth of London Underground in a fight for workplace justice has kicked off today.

An update on the Jubilee Line stock faults is attached.

Please download it to read it and distribute it in your Jubilee Line workplace.