RMT members have voted by a 5:1 majority to take strike action to stop London Underground Ltd’s plans to cut and casualise our workforce. Together with TSSA, we will strike for 72 hours, starting with the night turns on Sunday 6 April. All grades will strike together, because the issues affect all grades and because we know that when we act together, we are stronger.

We are striking because talking has not been enough to dissuade LUL management from attacking your rights, your job security, your safety and your career prospects.

The company has suggested that it might make concessions on some of our demands. This is because the unions have piled on the pressure by organising industrial action. You have forced your employer to back off a little just by being prepared to strike. By pressing ahead with our strike plans, we can force them to back off even further.

The company has not yet put anything in writing that is acceptable to your union. In any case, we have to judge LUL’s proposals for what they are, not for how they might differ from earlier proposals. LUL continues with its policies of:

• Leaving stations unsupervised
• Replacing LUL staff with security and agency staff
• Recruiting drivers and others externally while denying you a fair internal promotion system

LUL refuses to give the written guarantees that workers and your union need for:

• Adequate staffing of LUL platforms by LUL staff at Heathrow Terminal 5
• Acceptable minimum staffing levels on stations
• Fairness towards service control staff during the restructuring process

The company also intends to bring back plans to cut and close ticket offices, and to dilute the ‘refusal to work on safety grounds’ procedure, in the future.

Stop these attacks - all out from Sunday!