Protest held over sacking of tube staff (From Harrow Times)
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RMT union holds protest in central London over sacking of London Underground workers
12:10pm Friday 11th January 2013 in News By Emma Innes
The workers were told on December 19 that they would lose their jobs
The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union held a demonstration in central London this morning over the sacking of 33 London Underground workers.
The protest, which was attended by 50 people, took place outside the Transport for London headquarters from 8am.
The RMT is angry about the sacking of 33 London Underground agency workers on December 19.
It claims the workers, who worked on the Bakerloo line between Queens Park and Harrow and Wealdstone, had been employed on London Underground contracts for five years.
The union says that they were not given the opportunity to apply for jobs available at London Underground despite regulations forbidding this.
An RMT spokesman said: “Given the high unemployment in the area and the lack of opportunities for working people to get jobs, it is scandalous that London Underground has seen fit to throw all these hard working, decent people onto the dole.
“It is particularly scandalous when they have vacancies for the very same jobs these people have been doing for the past five years."
A protest about the sackings was also held on Monday at Wembley Central station.
