Station job cuts and downgradings

Faced with a stations overtime ban, management moved to restore some part-time weekend CSA jobs and upgrade some CSA2s across nine station covergroups. Further discussions are planned to discuss the remaining cover-groups and to look whether further job restorations are needed to make rosters more resilient. RMT will continue to press these issues but any progress being made has been jeopardised by the announcement of yet another reorganisation with devastating potential impacts for members across all station grades.

• CSMs told to apply for their own jobs and face a pay cut if they are not one of the lucky minority to keep a CSM position. Management is refusing to guarantee salaries, a position we won during fit for the future.

• Fewer, bigger areas. All station grades face being moved at the last minute around huge areas. The framework was not designed to work over areas the size of former cover-groups.

• Another 200 job cuts delivered on top of the 600 imposed since the pandemic.

RMT will fight them all the way. Passenger numbers are back up to well over 90% and we need our station staff.

Management might be happy with posters misleading passengers about the availability of staff at every station during traffic hours. We will fight for adequate staffing in all locations for real.