Looking for a Transfer or Promotion, tough if LU get their way!

Staff have recently been informed by several managers that a freeze on nominations for SAMF positions was in place, but after the Functional reps raised this at the last Functional council meeting LU flatly refused that a freeze was in place and will confirmed this in a staff report scheduled to be published this week.

Last Friday (22 January), RMT reps Janine Booth and Malcolm Taylor attended a meeting with London Underground management to discuss our concerns about Mystery Shopper Surveys (MSS) and Staff Information Surveys (SIS).

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.

Management confirmed that the £5 minimum Top–Up will be rolled out across the whole network with the January fares revision. RMT have and will continue to object to the £5 minimum top up.

• Mystery Shopper / Staff Information Surveys
• Station complexity
• Referral from Notting Hill Gate group: rest day rosters
• Referral from Brixton group: Step Back Supervisors
• Referral from Edgware Road: New Supervisor Positions
• Removal of SATS duties
• DSMs conducting case conferences
• Collective grievance
• Parental Leave
• Trade union information requests
• Framework Agreement

Yesterday, RMT (and TSSA) met with London Underground to demand an end to the company using the Special Requirements Team (SRT) in breach of its own rules. Regional Organiser Steve Hedley and Stations & Revenue Council representatives Janine Booth and John Kelly attended the meeting with London Underground Director George McInulty and members of his team.

Proposed SFC agenda for 26/11/2009

At the Strategy & Development Forum today (5 November), trade union and management representatives met and discussed the following issues. RMT representatives at the meeting were Malcolm Taylor, Neil Cochrane and Janine Booth.

The main issues affecting our members were:

1. £5 Minimum PAYG Top Up

Management informed us that a briefing paper was being compiled for an Executive decision on whether to roll out the £5 minimum PAYG top up to all stations on the network. It looks likely that they will do this as it is clearly part of their on-going strategy to drive customers away from the ticket office windows.

This is the latest newsletter from the desk of the Liverpool Street RMT industrial rep - in a new format!
Please print off copies an display around stations, or email (using the facility below) to your colleagues.
The minutes from the lastest Level 1 meeting are also attached.

Here is a summary of the issues discussed between the unions and management at the Stations & Revenue Council on Thursday 24 September.

Trial of revised methods of accounting for fares collecting - the Rule Book includes an outdated procedure, and RMT will continue to challenge this.

Listed below is the next agenda for the Stations and Revenue functional meeting with a brief overview of the listed items a full report will folow after the meeting

Referral 0614: Charing Cross: Broken Level 1 Agreement
5. Referral 0637: Tower Hill: Closure of Cannon Street Ticket Office
6. Referral 0644: Blackhorse Road: Covering Part Duties on Overtime

London Underground management is attacking jobs - and the most recent Stations & Revenue Council meeting revealed the extent of their attack. London Underground is:

• trying to scrap jobs "on the quiet"
• keeping posts vacant even where there are staff ready and willing to fill them
• leaving duties uncovered when staff are available to cover them

London Underground management are trying to whittle away the core roles of a Station Supervisor by creating a part-qualified Supervisor grade on the ex-Silverlink stations. RMT believes that this is both unfair on the staff who will take up these Supervisor jobs and a threat to the Station Supervisor grade in general.

At the Framework Forum this Thursday (16 July), we will be discussing the following:

• 12 Hours Rest
• Staff Being Moved To Other Groups Under Guise Of Development Opportunities
• New draft of Framework Agreement Schedule 1
• New draft of Framework Agreement Schedule 2
• New draft of Framework Agreement Schedule 3

RMT has tabled the following issues for discussion at the Stations & Revenue Council meeting later this month.

• Etiquette of functional council meetings – As per 27th February 2002 Functional council minutes the governance of the meetings was agreed. We want a reminder of this agreement stated in meetings so both parties are aware of their roles and these roles adhered to.

Your RMT representatives at this meeting were Malcolm Taylor and Janine Booth. Issues discussed were as follows:

Management reported at the Strategy and Development Forum on 14 May that the new training programme was to start the following week. There will be fewer Station Supervisors in each class. We asked how this will be achieved with the existing number and trainers, suggesting that more trainers' posts should be created.