Sadiq Khan Mayor of London City Hall, The Queen’s Walk London SE1 2AA 16 November 2021
Dear Sadiq, TfL’s Senior Management Performance Award Scheme I’m writing to you today to call on you to scrap TfL’s Senior Management Performance Award Scheme as a matter of urgency. The decision taken by TfL’s remuneration committee is appallingly poorly judged. We all understand that the government is making life difficult for TfL. We disagree with the deals you have made with the government and we are committed to doing everything we can to defend our members from the deeply unjust attacks being launched on their pay and pensions and the threats to services that are being posed as a consequence, but in spite of that we know where ultimate responsibility for these attacks lies. Yet there can absolutely no justification whatsoever for tying senior management performance bonuses to delivery of this cuts programme. TfL workers have done everything asked of them throughout the pandemic, the worst crisis to hit this country since the Second World War. TfL workers have died in service. Real, hard sacrifices have been made by frontline workers and passengers in responding to this crisis and they continue to be made every day as we all shape our behaviour to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is nothing more than ‘cash for cuts’. Our members, like TfL’s executives, have been required to ‘perform at the highest possible level to overcome the challenges to deliver their goals’. But they are expected to do this for no reward, contemplating a future where their livelihoods are being threatened and their retirements thrown into precariousness. What makes TfL senior management so special – a breed apart - that they can only ‘perform at the highest possible levels’ if they are given a bonus? How much more
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scandalous if their challenge is to attack the livelihoods of those who are expected to perform at the highest levels effectively for nothing? Can TfL really justify paying out £12 million to senior executives for their success in making other people’s lives harder? I am appealing to you to take action to restore this incendiary situation and scrap this disgusting scheme as a matter of urgency. Yours sincerely,
Michael Lynch, RMT General Secretary
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