Special issue of 'RMT Platform' - ten reasons why you should vote YES-YES

Please find attached the new issue of 'RMT Platform', our newsletter for London Underground station and revenue staff. It reports on what has been happening at talks with the company, explains how the job cuts will affect staff, answers frequently-asked questions, and offers ten reasons why staff should vote Yes in RMT's ballot for industrial action. Please download and distribute widely. Printed copies will also be available at the Regional Office at Unity House.

1. Because these job cuts will be a disaster for all of us - every grade of station staff; other grades of Underground workers; and passengers too.

2. Because LU management are not listening to your union reps in talks. Industrial action will make them listen.

3. Because management have not given you a chance to vote on whether you want job cuts. RMT is giving you that chance - this is your opportunity to show your opposition to de-staffing of stations.

4. Because we are already being slaughtered with coverage at work - vacancies frozen, duties left uncovered, leaving us dangerously over-worked and under-staffed. Management are doing this to prepare to cut jobs: so the way to stop it is to fight the job cuts.

5. Because this is an all-grades ballot. RMT is asking station staff, revenue, drivers, service control, engineers and admin to stand together to defeat these job cuts. Station staff are not being left to fight alone.

6. Because every Yes vote puts more pressure on management to withdraw the job cuts; and every No vote gives them the green light to go ahead.

7. Because management will interpret No votes as support for their job cuts, and abstentions as apathy - they will take both as endorsement of their plans.

8. Because industrial action is where our real power lies. We keep London Underground running every day - if we withdraw our labour, the Tube stops, and the company and the politicians have to listen.

9. Because if we do not take a stand, TfL/LU will not stop at these job cuts. They will come for Supervisors, drivers and other grades, and will attack our pay, conditions and pensions.

10. Because these job cuts are not ‘inevitable’ - not if we fight them, anyway.