We had an ad hoc Director's meeting today about the £5 minimum Oyster trial; travelling time to workshops; Heathrow T5 staffing; and opening and closing of stations . These are all issues on which we recorded 'failure to agree' at the Stations & Revenue Council meeting on 11 December 2008.

Janine Booth, Olly New and Neil Cochrane represented RMT at this meeting, and argued our case strongly. Management will give us their responses within one week (£5 minimum trial) and within two weeks (the other issues).

This leaves us no choice but to proceed under the assumption that management plan to go ahead with the £5 minimum trial, and we are advising our members on the stations involved not to co-operate with the trial ie. to coninue topping up Oyster cards for less than a fiver if that is what the customer wants.