The new issue of our 'RMT Platform' newsletter is out now. It responds to management's letter threatening to displace CSAs, provides 'know your rights' guides for the Special Requirements Team and for weekend part-timers, reports the latest news on the new Wood Lane station, and promotes next Monday's mass meeting and the Station & Revenue Grades meeting.

Click on the file name below to download and print it. You can also pick up colour printed copies from the regional office at Unity House. Please circulate it at work.

RMT press release, issued today

SOME 70 RMT station staff at a dozen stations at the north end of London Underground’s Metropolitan line are to strike for 24 hours from 05:30 tomorrow (Thursday) morning against the forced transfer of staff.

Members returned a 13-to-one majority for action after senior LUL management breached its own procedures to tell staff on permanent postings that they would have to move jobs – over-ruling a potential solution negotiated locally.

RMT London Underground members on the Rickmansworth Group have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action next Thursday (August 7, 2008) following a local management decree that a number of CSA members were alleged to be surplus to requirements and compulsorily transferred.

"These draconian measures were taken despite staff being assured by the general station manager that they were part and parcel of the normal reserve compliment and some staff actually moved home on the strength of it," said RMT general secretary Bob Crow today.

Vote YES for Strike Action - Ballot Papers will arrive from 23 July

• Five CSAs told they Will be Transferred on 10 Aug
• LUL Wait until RMT rep going on Leave to Issue Notices
• We Must Stand Together and Fight this Disgraceful Management Behaviour

We would all hope that our colleagues would support us if we were facing a forced transfer. You would not want to face getting a staff taxi at 3am to make a dead early at Paddington. Don’t let it happen to your fellow workers.

You can download a leaflet/poster by clicking on the file name below.

From Jared Wood, RMT Industrial Relations Rep, to all RMT members on Rickmansworth Group

• Eight CSAs told they Will be Transferred on 10 Aug
• LUL Wait until RMT rep on Leave to Issue Notices
• We Must Stand Together and Fight this Disgraceful Management Behaviour

London Underground seems to have developed a habit of sending staff to jobs that don't actually exist. There are groups of staff, such as CSAs at Rickmansworth, who were sent out of the training school to 'over establishment' posts. And then there are individuals, several of whom have been offered moves that they had nominated and signed acceptance for, only to be told that there is some kind of hitch and they can not have the job after all.

Three CSAs off our group were disgracefully displaced to Waterloo last week by Resourcing who stated that the CSAs were 'over establishment' at Charing Cross and due to the fact a dubious letter saying they may be moved had been signed when they all first joined the job. Management think that they have the right to just move staff on as they feel like it with no concern to the correct proceedure within Transfer and Promotions.

After Resourcing's latest fiasco with regards to the three CSAs being told that they are moving to Waterloo, we brought the matter before the stations and revenue functional council today.

From Jared Wood, RMT Industrial Relations Rep, to all RMT members on Rickmansworth Group

RMT has told LU we are in dispute over Transfer Threat

At the last level 2 meeting to discuss the threat to transfer 8 CSAs away from Rickmansworth group management claimed that all 8 had signed letters that told them they may be given a temporary position on their first group.

From Jared Wood, RMT Industrial Relations Rep, to all RMT members on Rickmansworth Group
8 CSA’s Remain Under Threat of Transfer
Management Pushed onto Back Foot but Fight Goes On