Weve just had the most effective strikeon the underground in 15 years, we canhardly follow that by accepting a worseoffer than the one we went on strikeover.

These were the wise words of one of thedelegates to the reps meeting held atUnity House on Monday. The reps meetingfollowed a session at ACAS on Friday July31st where LUL proposed a final, final offerfor wages and Night Tube (NT). The offerfor Train Ops included a reduction of thenon-consolidated NT payment from 2,000to 500 for drivers affected by itsintroduction; replaced by a payment of200 per night shift for drivers working NTduring the interim period. Following onfrom this 12 month period all shiftenhancement payments will be stopped for ever.

This falls a long, long way short of ourreasonable demands for working allthrough the night on Fridays andSaturdays.

The wage offer should be totally separatefrom the talks on NT, but LUL has insistedon amalgamating the 2 issues. The reasonof course is that Mayor Johnson is insistingon getting NT on the cheap, so LUL has toplunder the pot set aside for a wageincrease to finance Johnsons latest vanityproject. This means that the pay offer iseither just above or just below 2% for allgrades, for T/Ops it is exactly 2%. It couldbe argued that in isolation this offer isnt amillion miles from offers in other trainoperating companies the key differenceis that we wont get this unless we agree todrastic changes to our work-life balance.

To rub salt into our wounds LUL threwanother spanner into the works late onFriday: they want to raise the number of

occasions we can be compelled to workspecial events from 3 to 7 nights per year.Recently LUL hasnt needed to use morethan 1 (NYE) so why would this need to beraised to 7?

Well, the simple answer is we dont know,but it may well be a cunning plan to get usto work all through the night on thoseSundays preceding Bank Holidays. Andwhat will that do to our work-life balance?

We are now dealing with a set of seniormanagers who believe that as we arecontracted to work 36 hours a week, as faras they are concerned they can make us doanything they want within those hours.They are on a politically motivatedcampaign against workers on theUnderground, at the behest of Johnsonand Cameron. If they get away with forcingthrough the introduction of NT in this wayour jobs will be unrecognisable in a year ortwo. We must stand together, workers ofall unions united against this onslaught.

United we will win.

Second Strike Over Pay & Night Tube

No T/Ops to book on for any duties between 21.00 onWednesday 5th August and 20.59 on Thursday 6th August.

Our demands: A shorter working week

A consolidated payment forchanging our frameworkagreement

Enhanced payments for each timewe work a NT shift

A guaranteed 2 rest days, notcounting Sunday in the weekfollowing a Saturday NT

A freeze on weekend work atcurrent levels with a phasedreduction to 1992 levels