Today is London Underground pay day, and staff have been shocked to discover that their pay does include the 4.2% rise that should have applied from 1 April. After a long-running dispute last year, the pay deal was agreed in December, so London Underground has had plenty of time to arrange for the year 2 rise to be paid on time.

Dear Colleagues,

Please find the attached Circular from the General Secretary:

Circular IR/398/09 23rd December Rates of Pay and Conditions of Service.

Kind regards & best wishes for the New Year

Gavin

Dear Colleagues,

Most of you will have seen the internal communication from LUL regarding the pay deal, according to which operational staff can expect to be paid in late February.

I've attached the internal communiqué.

Kindest regards

Gavin

After a long drawn out fight and lots of "vote yes" "this paydeal is unacceptable" comments the EC have decided that the paydeal is acceptable and that were going to concentrate on the job cuts. Yes we must fight the job cuts but now we have put ourselves in the position of looking as bad as Scablef who done exactly the same.

Regional Organiser Steve Hedley writes ...

After a mammoth ten hour session at ACAS on Tuesday night, management left the building without as much as putting an offer on the table concerning pay or even medical redeployment. So non train drivers are to be discriminated against if LUL get their way; even Aslef members who are not drivers will suffer.

Of course we want everyone including drivers to have better medical redeployment, but LUL walked away promising only to hold a further meeting next Tuesday.

The general secretary has confirmed that we will now be balloting on the issue of our pay claim - the only pay claim to ask for medical redeployment for all staff. The TSSA having been betrayed by LUL are now back in dispute as well and Unite are already balloting.

Click on '1 attachment' / file name to download a leaflet encouraging station staff to vote Yes in the forthcoming industrial action ballot over pay. The leaflet can be cut into two separate halves.

Please download, print and distribute widely.

All London Underground RMT reps (indusrial relations, not health and safety) are released from duty to attend our meeting to discuss London Underground's pay offer, as follows:

Tuesday 6 October, 11am
Mahatma Gandhi Hall, Indian YMCA
Fitzroy Square, near Warren Street

• That the number of LUL/TfL managers on over £100,000 per year has gone up from 123 last year to 163 this year?! And that does not include Metronet and Crossrail!

RMT tube workers will be taking a protest to Mayor Boris Johnson’s question time this Wednesday – 17th June – over his broken promises on the London Living Wage for some tube cleaners and over the docking of pay for staff who could not get into work on the snow day in February.

Congratulations to all members, who showed during the recent strike action what being part of this great trade union is about. Throughout London underground only a few Scab members came into work but these few were not enough to get stations open even though the usual office employees were there too.

From Bob Crow, RMT General Secretary.

It has come to my notice that LUL management are handing out anti-strike propaganda and asking people to sign for it. This is nothing more than a crude attempt to intimidate people during the current ballot and is both counterproductive and completely unnecessary.

RMT press release, issued today

THE TUBE’S biggest union today began a re-ballot of nearly 10,000 members across London Underground and Transport for London for strike action in separate disputes centred on jobs, pay and breaches of disciplinary and attendance agreements.

Do you hold licenses for jobs other than your current grade? Do you regularly get Higher Grade Working (HGW)? If you have answered yes you may not be getting the pay you deserve. After an item was raised at a local level 1 meeting regarding HGW, the GSM was forced to concede that the agreement below needed to be adhered to.

RMT press release, issued today

THE TUBE’S biggest union is to re-ballot nearly 10,000 members across London Underground and Transport for London for strike action in separate disputes centred on jobs, pay and breaches of disciplinary and attendance agreements.

The new issue of RMT Goodge Street group news addresses members' questions about the current industrial action ballot, and provides updates on local issues.

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download it.

RMT's rep on Goodge Street group has produced this excellent question-and-answer article about our ballot for industrial action ...

What are the issues?

Pay. LUL’s pay offer is a five year pay cut. We want a decent pay rise.

RMT press release, issued today

THE TUBE’S biggest union is to ballot nearly 10,000 members across London Underground and Transport for London for strike action in two separate disputes centred on jobs and pay.

The new issue of 'RMT Platform' condemns LUL's five-year pay 'offer', and urges all members to vote Yes in RMT's ballot for industrial action and to get involved in the union's campaigning.

London Underground has tabled a five-year pay offer of RPI+1% in the first year followed by RPI only for the remaining four.

This looks like a pay freeze - which would be bad enough - but is actually a year-on-year pay cut. RPI systematically under-estimates real inflation as it affects workers, so in real terms, this insulting offer cuts your pay each year. RPI is low now because the prices of luxury goods are tumbling. But our everyday expenditure on food and bills is still going up.

So London Underground would have you spend more and more each year, with no more money to do it with. Your employer would willingly see you get poorer and poorer. And all the while, you are making them richer and richer: our productivity is rising sharply, as we carry more passengers and bring in more revenue.

At 'Valuing Time', senior managers tell us how great we are. But while we like being praised, we'd rather be paid!

From Bob Crow, RMT General Secretary - click on the file name below to download and print this.

NOTICE OF BALLOTS FOR STRIKE ACTION AND INDUSTRIAL ACTION SHORT OF A STRIKE