By an LUL train operator AT LONG last we have it.
payers' The moment London Underground (LUL) workers have been waiting for -the RMT and ASLEF are coordinating strike action on LUL.
It is supposedly over pay. This is what both unions balloted on.
Additionally, engineering members of the RMT have been balloted on iob security in response to the LUL 'make or buy privatisation policies.
Both ballots and have been given decisive three-to-one votes for action.
All grades of staff are under enormous pressure from the increased workloads and the new regime of bullying. Stress-related illness has rocketed since the introduction of the Company Plan package of new management techniques.
There are whole teams of mangers whose sole purpose is to get more work out of us. A vital part of our pay claim is therefore a reduction in working hours.
The union bureaucrats hope that the issue will go away, pretending the dispute is It would be cheaper for the government to settle immediately then let it go on.
But they know that what is really at stake is the morale and organisation of railway workLeading role: Executive member Pat Sikorski ers and, beyond that, other public sector workers and the whole trade union movement.
The Tories don't mind spending a few bob of the taxmoney to push a deeper wedge between unions and the Labour Party.
The RMT London Transport District Council and LUL Executive Member Pat Sikorski have played an important role in the run up to the dispute. We have managed to maintain our in contrast to large areas of BR.
The steady flow of militant cil, in contrast to the head offices of both unions, has kept up pressure on the ASLEF headership, who have a sad history of making deals for train operators at the expense No doubt some of the bosses would like to make a deal with ASLEF on LUL to divide the struggle. There will be systematic strike breaking from management. Members