Unite Calls Time on Obscene ‘Ten to One’ Pay Gap at London Underground

LONDON - At exactly ten minutes to one today (Wednesday), Unite members at London Underground will be calling time on the obscene pay gap at the capital’s tube operator.

The employees, all members of Unite, will be protesting outside London Underground’s HQ to draw attention to the ten to one difference in pay between senior TfL executives and the workers providing the services which keep the capital’s passengers on the move. Unite is pushing for LU to close the pay gap and, in doing so, to make the tube a truly public service.

John Morgan-Evans, Unite’s regional officer for London Underground, said today’s protest was a measure of Unite members’ growing frustration:

“This company must see that it is just not acceptable to let such a huge gap in earnings open up between workers and managers. London Underground must address our members’ legitimate pay claims and act to end the ridiculous pay gap between the lower paid bulk of the workforce and the highly paid executives in TfL.

“Commuters who have to pay at least GBP4 to go a couple of stops on the tube will be sick to learn that their hard-earned money is going towards keeping executives in the style to which they’ve become accustomed.

“For a public service, it is obscene for London Underground to mimic the worst behaviour of the private sector, where fat cat bosses lord it over the less well paid and more deserving.”

Unite members are being balloted on industrial action on this year’s pay settlement.

Photo opportunity 12.50pm, Wednesday, November 4th London Underground HQ Broadway, London SW1

London Underground workers with enormous “10″ and “1″ signifying LU pay gap

Source: Unite the Union

For further information please call John Morgan-Evans on +44(0)7958-514702