TRANSPORT workers are holding a protest today to demand that London Underground (LU) deals with violence against its staff.

RMT members will demonstrate outside a meeting of the LU’s workplace violence group at Blackfriars Road, south London, as part of a new union campaign for workplace safety.

The campaign is demanding that lone working comes to an end and that transport bosses carry out an audit to ensure staffing levels at all stations are safe.

RMT members will also be opposing the creation of a new staff grade on “inferior” terms and the deployment of non-LU workers to work on the Underground.

General secretary Mick Cash said: “There is an epidemic of violence and crime on London Underground borne out by all the statistics, and it is RMT members in the front line without the staffing resources and back-up that they need to deal with this appalling situation.

“Be under no illusions, RMT will take whatever action, including industrial action, to guarantee a safe working environment for our members and to protect their status and conditions against this background of violence.”