LUL/TfL Report
Pay 2024 Special Bulletin
TfL & LUL pay offers:
Your right to have your union negotiate your pay is under threat
Both TfL and LUL have offered a pay rise of 3.3% for 2024. This offer does not meet members’ needs as the cost-of-living crisis goes on. What is more, this offer comes with a plan to remove our right to negotiate pay in future years.
Battle of the Bands
Both offers include freezing pay bands. Anyone at the top of their band will not get a consolidated pay rise. The only exception to the band freeze is those on £99.5K who had their bands frozen in 2023.
• Anyone moving into a role in the future could start at the bottom, with no negotiated pay rises applied.
• TfL members are impacted immediately. Many will again be refused a consolidated pay rise.
• About 20% of members in LUL are also in banded pay and could be immediately impacted.
Banded pay to be imposed across ALL GRADES in LUL
Now TfL has outlined new “pay management” plans, to be imposed this year in TfL and then in LUL as phase 2.
What LUL pay management plans would mean:
• TfL will set bands based on so called job families like driver/customer service/maintenance etc. They will not negotiate these bands but will set them based on so-called market testing of pay rates.
• If a pay award takes a grade above the top of the band those members would be refused the consolidated pay rise.
• Your consolidated pay would be frozen at the top of any imposed band irrespective of the annual pay award.
Pension Cuts by the back door
Your pension is calculated on your final consolidated pay. If you had missed out on the last five consolidated awards your pension would be cut by over 20%.
Many TfL members have missed out on several consolidated pay rises since the system was introduced in 2015. Enough is enough.
RMT will fight for all negotiated deals to be paid in full and as consolidated pay to all.
Defend your right to negotiate your pay.
LETTER FROM MICK LYNCH TO LU...
This Union demands that an improved offer is tabled at the next meeting... ...Furthermore, any acceptable pay offer must be paid in full and as consolidated salary to every member in our collective bargaining unit... ...this Union will not sit by and wait for proposals from TfL regarding paybands being introduced to all grades.
Yours sincerely, Mick Lynch
Pound store pay
We get compared with Poundland while directors get bumper pay rises!
TfL has admitted that when they benchmark or market test our pay they do not compare us with Network Rail. But Poundland is included. RMT offers solidarity to all underpaid workers but for TfL to cook the books like this is unacceptable.
The same people who market test our pay are taking massive pay rises with the highest salaries now around £500K.
LU’s offer also includes a minimum increase of £1320. This is a step in the right direction but it only benefits members earning less than 40K. We need to secure an underpin that offer real benefit to members in lower paid grades.
With inflation now falling this is TfL/LUL’s chance to recover lost ground and restore our real pay.
MASS MEETING
LUL AND TFL PAY 2024
... AN ACCEPTABLE OFFER HAS NOT BEEN MADE Weds 7 August, 16:00 YMCA Indian Student Hostel MH Gandhi Hall, YMCA Indian Student Hostel, 41 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6AQ All TfL and LUL members welcome