In this edition read about:

The Pay Offer (what it is and what is happening).

Barbican returns to SS3 but what about the rostered Supers there? The rep believes they should be able to remain there on their SS2 salary. LUL disagree's.

Opening Staff Lockers - Train side seem to have a procedure for this station side does not.

The Hammersmith & City Branch AGM.

Gerry Duffy's recent letter to Bob Crow about uniform cleaning token shows that there is a great divide between what management think they know and what it actually the case.

Dear Colleagues in this edition of SIGNAL you can read about:

• The idea of using reasonable force/ and counter attack
• Olympic rewards and recognition (from Stations Functional Council)
• Barbican and Farringdon Upgrade/downgrade developments (from Stations Functional Council)
• Wheelchair user evac training – a Health and Safety Bulletin

Includes a special letter from Malcolm Taylor the Staff Side Secretary.

Dear Colleagues you may remember the details of our collective grievance from back in August 2010 if not you can find them by following this link: http://www.rmtplatform.org.uk/node/857.
The GSM has now provided a response which I have repudiated today. Please take a look. It’s six pages long, but it will give you a clear idea of what I’ve been up to in level 1 meetings.

Collective grievance from King's Cross

Our fundamental objections are to:
Loss of 12 f/t CSA posts, two p/t CSA posts, two CCA posts and seven rostered SAMF posts, with a consequent reduction of reserve SAMF posts.

• 2 x S/S
• 4 x SAMFs
• 29 x CSAs

Dear Colleague the latest newsletter for the Liverpool Street Group is attached.

Our fundamental objections are to:

ALDGATE
1 full time SAMF to go!
SAMFs no longer a 0700-1100 duty, it is no 0615-1400 with a 0515 start on some Thursdays.

BARBICAN
1 full time CSA to go!
reduction in weekends for CSAs
2 duties to cover at Liverpool Street station – which may be seen as a further dilution of rostered status.
FARRINGDON
1 full time CSA job to go
Fewer weekends off

One of the SAMFs at Liverpool Street Station and a recent recruit to the RMT Union supplied me with some excellent criticism of the proposed job cuts and roster, he wrote:

The special edition of For The Record list job cuts.

Finally, LU has spilled the beans as to its intentions for the King's Cross ticket offices, which it left out of the original details for ticket office cuts.. Here are the gory details (current times in brackets).

Monday – Thursday
• Northern Entrance Ticket Office 07:00-22:30 (05:00-01:00)
• Tube Entrance Ticket Office 05:00-00:45 (05:00-01:00)

The next Hammersmith & City branch meeting will take place on Wednesday 5th May from 5pm at the Exmouth Arms, 1, Starcross Street, Euston, NW1 2HR. The nearest tube stations are Euston and Euston Square.

This updated version of For the Record April 2010 contains news about:

*job cuts and how Liverpool Street group will be affected:
*the Staff Our Stations campaign and it's arrival at Liverpool Street station;
*the Moorgate scra roster undermining and plans to undermine an ss1 job at Liverpool Street;
*Farringdon's CSA roster;
*Liverpool Street's csa roster;
*the planned attack on long weekends for reserve staff of all grades;
*the myth of voluntary severance;
*mystery shoppers & positive feedback - another myth;
*your rights when returning to annual leave or rest days from sick leave

Friday 23rd of April 1300hrs Liverpool Street Station outside McDonald's

We will be gathering to leaftlet the public with news about the planned jobs cull and inviting them to sign the petition

Please come along to show your support for the causes and to make an impact!

Flyer advertising the day is attached.

The attached is the April edition of For the Record which this month contains:

• News about the job cuts
• Information on activities by the union to prevent the job cuts
• Roster issues for Farringdon, Liverpool Street and SCRA’s
• Long-weekend for reserves under-threat.
• Mystery shoppers and other news & information.

Stop The Job Slaughter

So… let’s get it right from the start: the banks have screwed up; the bankers have screwed up; PPP has been a massive failure; Metronet has gone bankrupt; Tubelines is about to go bust too. Oh, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have drained billions that could have been spent on health, education and, er… public transport. But, but, but…it’s Tube workers who are expected to pay. They want to sack us to pay for their mess.