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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.

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.

Motion 12

Transport Salaried Staffs’

Association

Motion 13

Association of Educational

Psychologist