POSTED ON BEHALF OF MALCOLM TAYLOR

Following a meeting between functional reps and LU management, a proposal by LU has been presented to the TU's for moving the OE staff into established positions this proposal is as follows:

Following a meeting between functional reps and LU management, a proposal by LU has been presented to the TU's for moving the OE staff into established positions this proposal is as follows:

Following a meeting between functional reps and LU management, a proposal by LU has been presented to the TU's for moving the OE staff into established positions this proposal is as follows:

Part Time Employees Being Treated Less Favourably

Below is a template of what you should advise a member to do if they are part time and they believe that they have been less favourably treated than a full time colleague, this template has been sent out to all reps by email.

London Underground has written to some SAMFs inviting expressions of interest in Voluntary Severance (VS). RMT believes that it was entirely inappropriate for LU management to do this, and that it contains serious dangers for members.

Following the cancellation of last week's Director's meeting, union representatives will meet a Director to discuss filling vacancies and avoiding displacements on Wednesday 27 January at 11am.

Check back here for a report after the meeting.

The Director's meeting scheduled for this morning did not take place because the adverse weather conditions prevented the Director from attending.

The meeting will be rescheduled, and in the meantime, no staff will be forcibly moved away from their location.

UPDATE: This issue will be discussed at a meeting between union reps and a London Underground director on Wednesday 6 January.

London Underground is now considering forcibly moving some over-establishment staff away from their current locations, having refused a series of reasonable proposals from RMT (supported by TSSA) that would avoid this.

London Underground has decided that all additional station staff duties required by project work must be covered by the Special Requirements Team - even where there are existing project CSAs at that location. As a result, those staff face being forced to move away to a work location where they do not want to work, and will be replaced by people who are not nearly as familiar with the station.

The station which this will affect immediately is Bank/Monument, which has just completed phase 1 of its project work but still has several more phases to go, and will not be completed for several years. As ‘On The Move’ recently pointed out, the Bank/Monument complex is the largest underground railway station in Europe. There are already serious concerns about staffing levels, assaults and evacuation times on the station, and replacing staff who are familiar with the running of the station and well-versed in evacuation procedures can only make these problems worse.

RMT and TSSA reps took part in a lengthy discussion with management today about "over-establishment" CSAs.

We reiterated our opposition to any displacements, and our proposal that management should fill vacancies, confident that doing so would create a chain of vacancies that would see most if not all of the over-establishment staff find posts at stations and groups they want to work at.

London Underground has written to staff who are working above the establishment level on their station group, suggesting that they nominate substantive posts to move to. This letter has cause some alarm, with some staff interpreting it as a threat to displace them.

On 10 February, RMT (and TSSA) reps attended the latest in a series of meetings with a London Underground Director to discuss the 'problem' of over-establishment CSAs. LUL opened the meeting by stating that the company now intends to displace some CSAs, but by the end of the meeting, your union had persuaded them to delay this pending a further meeting.

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.