2021
London Underground Train Operators Bulletin www.rmt.org.uk/join
LU plots 5 day ‘compressed’ week Hours up, rostered holiday down, agreements scrapped, pension threatened RETURN YOUR BALLOT PAPER BY TUESDAY 23rd MAY
Do you want: • 10 hour shifts? • 6 hours before a meal
break?
• Booking on in depots or
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GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY GETS UNDERWAY
PRODUCTIVITY
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elsewhere on the line in your own time? Banked ‘Work’ Days meaning you owe management hours? 2 weeks LESS rostered leave? PTOAs that you have to pay for with pay cut to match the hours worked? Five day weeks of up to 10 hour shifts? Just 24 hour notice for shifts throughout the year? Redeployment agreements and sickness process weakened?
Management are seeking to We have now had a number of amend the framework agreement • meetings at TFC regarding to extend your working day and "Trains Change." A formal pro- time on the handle to increase • posal has now been put to us and the amount of driving time and it is clear that management have maximise the productive work plans aimed at saving them mil- you do. These are just a few of the lions of pounds every year and potentially affecting your life at This will include removing the things LU wants to dress up as a ‘4 day week’! work in the most negative way. earliest and latest book on times, to effectively remove convention- are competent in any given area. All agreements and working prac- al night work, which they view as All of this will mean that the matices are being looked at and it is unproductive. jority of time you are at work, up clear that management have ideto ten hours a day, you will be on as for detrimental change in Management want to issue iPads the front conducting driving duties many areas. so that we are always contacta- with time either side of breaks Your work-life balance - GONE! ble. They plan to totally change slashed. the booking on and off procedure, FLEXIBILITY so it can be done remotely at multiple locations in your own They are seeking to completely time, change walking times and overhaul the “cover model” with remove all booking off time. all pools being removed; spares as you know them now, vastly Potentially they will even have us reduced and a flexible cover cross line working, as long as you