GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

The MOTION was CARRIED

THE PRESIDENT: Can I suggest we have a 20 minute tea break which means that

we will be back at 10.35.

The meeting adjourned for tea

THE PRESIDENT: The next one in your order papers is Motion 10 on page 60, but

in fact it is Motion 12 on page 62, followed by Motion 11 on the nationalisation

of the railways. Both of these motions are in the name of TSSA and if Manuel

were to move them jointly then that would seem to me to be quite a good idea if

Manuel is willing to do that.

BRO MANUEL CORTES (TSSA): Absolutely.

THE PRESIDENT: Okay. TSSA to move both motions 12 and 11.

MOTION 12 – LONDON UNDERGROUND DISPUTE AND CUTS TO TRANSPORT

FOR LONDON’S OPERATING GRANT

BRO MANUEL CORTES (TSSA) moved the following motion:

1

Conference, notes that in April 2016, Mayor Boris Johnson

implemented the Fit for the Future (FFtF) scheme in London Underground (LU)

that saw ticket offices closed and 800 jobs lost. The Conservative Mayor’s

legacy has, however, been to make LU a dangerous place to work and travel.

Reports from reps led to TSSA surveying station staff members with the finding

that 80% of LU customer facing workers feel less safe at work because of a

massive spike in cases of physical and verbal abuse towards them.

2

As a result, TSSA, along with RMT, have been pursuing industrial

action within LU. In a series of meetings at ACAS, and with the new Labour

Mayor, Sadiq Khan, the unions have secured commitments to reinstate 325

new jobs, over and above replacing existing vacancies.

3

The Conservative legacy remains in London. Transport for London,

parent of LU, has seen its operating grant from government cut completely

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