Tube staff win Olympic bonus of up to £1,000 May 29, 2012 LONDON Underground has dipped into its coffers to avert strike action on the Tube during the Olympic Games. After months of wrangling, the RMT union said yesterday it has agreed a deal with LU that offers staff up to £850 and drivers as much as £1,000 in extra payments for working during the Games. On [...]
Tube Lines staff will go on strike April 17, 2012 Maintenance staff working for Tube Lines will stage a 72 hour strike starting at 4pm next Tuesday in a dispute over pay, benefits and pensions parity with other workers on the London Underground. Employees at the Stratford Market depot and the Emergency Response Unit will walk out after they voted four-to-one in favour of strike [...]
London Tube workers vote to strike April 17, 2012 London Underground staff are set to walk out for 72 hours next week after they voted “four to one” in favour of strike action. The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union (RMT) said its workers would cease work at 4pm on 24 April and not return until after 4pm on 27 April. The dispute is [...]
Tube support staff vote to strike April 16, 2012 The RMT union said maintenance staff working for Tube Lines have voted four to one in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, benefits and pensions parity with other Transport for London staff. RMT is now considering its next course of action.
Mystery pest bugs Tube staff April 15, 2012 NORTHERN LINE: be on the look out for mysterious bugs mounting “sustained attacks” on Tube drivers. The RMT has complained in its latest newsletter of “as yet unidentified insects” plaguing Northern Line drivers based mainly at Morden. Fumigation has done nothing to soothe the drivers’ itches, thunders the union, and a total of 12 incident [...]
Unite scored an own goal with the tanker strike – but so has Cameron March 28, 2012 LEN McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite trade union, positions himself as an arch-enemy of the government. Of the Bob Crow school of diplomacy, McCluskey remains convinced civil disobedience is necessary to halt the coalition’s deficit reduction programme. And he seems hell-bent on ruining the Olympic Games with mass industrial action. Now might seem a [...]
Boris pledges new deal for suburban rail March 22, 2012 BORIS Johnson has promised to secure specific improvements to London’s suburban rail services if he is re-elected, in the form of longer trains and enlarged stations. The Budget includes a pledge to consider further investment in the capital’s rail network, prompting Johnson (pictured) to assert that he is the best-placed candidate to win funds from [...]
Olympic Tube strike talks stall March 22, 2012 Talks to avoid a transport strike during the Olympics stalled yesterday, with union reps slamming London Underground for imposing “even more strings” on workers alongside an £850 bonus. Five days of negotiations broke down yesterday morning when the RMT union objected to what it said were unreasonable and “inherently unsafe” demands that staff work more [...]
Tube workers to reject Games offer March 18, 2012 TUBE workers are set to reject yet another Olympics bonus offer this week, leaving transport bosses scrambling to avoid strikes during the Games, which are now just over four months away. Almost 150 reps for the RMT will today call on the union to turn down the latest £850 overtime and bonus package. The reps [...]
Unite rejects Olympics Tube bonus March 14, 2012 Unite the union yesterday rejected London Underground’s offer of an £850 Olympics bonus for its maintenance and management workers. Unite said the offer, which is still being considered by transport union RMT, had “strings attached [that] are totally unacceptable” including a requirement to work flexibly. Unite has also announced a ballot of London bus drivers [...]