LUs Assault on Jobs & Conditions of All

Grades Starts Now

I Will Strive to Build United Action to
Maintain a Safe, Properly Staffed Tube
By John Reid
As a member of the Stations & Revenue Functional Council I have already seen how management are
introducing new practices in preparation for job cuts. As London Transport Regional Council Secretary I
also know that similar attacks are being prepared on Trains, in Engineering, at TfL and Service Control.
Meanwhile, RMT members working for TfL sub-contractors including cleaners and catering staff as well
as our Taxi driver members are all suffering at the hands of an aggressive LU and TfL regime. We already
know that TfL/LU is planning:
Mobile Station Supervisors resulting in a massive reduction of Supervisor positions. Just this week
RMT has received a letter from LU that disregards objections raised by the unions and states the
companys intention to proceed with mobile supervision.

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The removal of the need for supervisors to check OPO equipment. This has been the responsibility of
supervisors since guards were removed on the tube. RMT driver reps have fought to maintain this
essential safety role of supervisors.
No Supervisor responsibility for booking on contractors and monitoring their activities. This will all be
delegated to a Site Person in Charge, in other words the contractors themselves.
New technology on stations to allow G4 contractors to collect money from self-service ticket machines
(POMs) without any LU staff being present.
No re-entry in pension fund for former Tubelines members and a wholesale re-organisation of
Engineering grades resulting in potential job cuts in all areas.
New signalling systems leading to plans to re-grade and displace service control members.
Further research of driverless trains. Even a partial introduction of automatic train operation would
create a surplus of drivers leading to displacements and threats to the security of Train Ops unless
they agree to whatever LU demands of them.

John Reid for Council of Executives