Rickmansworth group RMT rep Jared Wood reports ...

Management are trying to force seven CSAs to transfer off the Rickmansworth group reserve. LUL says the group is ‘over establishment’ for CSAs - but this is because of LUL’s mismanagement and has nothing to do with the individual members now being told to move.

All seven are CSAs with between three and six months service and all were told at Ashfield House that Rickmansworth would be their group. Several have moved homes since starting on the group but now LUL expects them to move to zone 1 stations, which would leave them needing staff taxis at 3am to make dead early starts.

If management get away with this, it will establish a dangerous precedent where LUL can send CSAs to a group over the normal reserve level and then demand they transfer at any time to any location. This flies in the face of established procedures for transfers and promotion and risks making station staff a mobile workforce at the mercy of management whims.

The staff were told to move on 13 January, but were not even given proper notice. The issue is due to be discussed at functional council on 17th January. RMT on Rickmansworth group is also calling for support for these members from all RMT members.