GFTU BGCM Report 2017

Motion 12 Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association

London Underground dispute and cuts to Transport for London’s operating grant 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 from 2018-19 meaning that jobs and services are put at risk as the company cuts its costs and sell assets. In a city with one of the worst pollution records in Europe and which suffers from chronic congestion, the option of cutting bus services in a city heavily dependent on public transport is now a real possibility, something that will see increased car usage and more avoidable deaths. 4 Conference is appalled by these issues and calls on the GFTU to support the dispute in LU and to campaign for the reinstatement of the TfL operating grant.

Motion 13 Association of Educational Psychologist

Selective Education

1 We note with concern the intention of the Government to promote educational selection through increasing the provision of Grammar Schools. 2 We call upon this Conference to oppose this increase in selection at the end of Key Stage 2 as children and young people transfer to secondary education. This opposition is based on clear evidence of the negative effects of selection on the educational, psychological and social wellbeing of children and young people.

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