After going on strike from 4 to 6 February, London tube workers represented by the National Union for Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) are to be consulted on a planned cut programme. As reported in last month’s newsletter, the London Underground recently presented a unilateral programme involving the cut of 950 ticket office jobs. The workers went on strike demanding to be consulted on the reformed and have now won two months to reach an agreement.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.