London Underground Industrial Action (No.2)

EDM number 966 in 2010-12, proposed by John McDonnell on 04/11/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Industrial relations and Railways.

That this House recognises that 11,000 London Underground workers, members of RMT and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association have felt it necessary to again sacrifice wages to take industrial action over their concern that the Mayor's proposals for massive job cuts will undermine the safe operation of passenger services; is concerned that Transport for London's (TfL) desire to portray itself as vigorous in running services during the strike has directly led to serious security lapses as ghost trains are run through closed stations with untrained staff and Northern Line stations are left unlocked overnight in a breach of regulations, creating a safety risk from vandalism and theft of kit, in order that TfL could add them to their list of open stations; notes that this safety dispute could be resolved by the Mayor of London, adhering to his election pledge on staffing; and calls on the Mayor to meet the trade unions without delay to reaffirm his commitment to reasonable and safe staffing levels.

This motion has been signed by a total of 9 MPs.