The RMT union has secured approval to increase its strike motion on the London Underground for an additional six months, and the members attitudes seem to have hardened because the final vote for strike motion.
Unions can search a strike poll from their members, but it surely must be renewed each six months to make sure the dispute remains to be energetic.
Final December, the vote was 94% in favour of sustaining strike motion on a turnout of 52%. Nonetheless, the newest strike poll outcomes reveals a hardening of views, with 96% voting in favour on a turnout of 56.5%. Extra RMT members working for London Underground are selecting to vote, and are voting in favour of motion.
These voting “sure” within the newest poll characterize 54% of these entitled to vote.
RMT normal secretary Mick Lynch stated: “I congratulate each single one in all our London Underground members for giving us continued industrial leverage on the negotiating desk.
“TfL can not proceed to easily want this dispute away and the federal government which has drastically lower the funding to London transport budgets, shares an excessive amount of accountability for this persevering with deadlock.
“London Underground employees need a negotiated settlement and are fairly ready to take extra strike motion over the following 6 months to make {that a}actuality.”
The union says that Transport for London desires to chop 600 jobs from station workers and that pension plans would see employees lose 30% of their pensions.
Nonetheless, though there will probably be 600 fewer workers working within the stations below present plans, that may come from pure wastage with vacancies not being stuffed and no redundancies are anticipated to be wanted.
There’s additionally no resolution but on what, if any adjustments could be made to the pensions. The federal government mandated evaluation of the pension scheme remains to be ongoing.
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