Cleaners

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ISSUES – NEW TUBE LINES CONTRACT – ISS

That we note the ballot result for both strike action and action short of strikes is follows:-

Total votes cast - 77

Number voting “Yes” - 77 (100%)

Number voting “No” - 0

Spoilt Papers - 0

We congratulate our members on their determination to fight against this employer’s attacks on their working conditions. We further note the recent significant increase in RMT membership and commend our representatives for achieving this.
 

In this edition:

• Piccadilly dispute latest
• Tube lines dispute
• Update on Rainbow Sickness Process from Stations Functional Council Reps
• Fighting for the 33
• Support ISS Cleaners
• Supervisor Cuts and Wider use of ICSAs Will be Resisted
• Thermal Comfort Survey

At this month's London Transport Regional Council Meeting, reports were given by our Executive member Janine Booth and Regional Organiser John Leach.

These are just notes of the areas discussed - to find out more, have a look through this site, speak to your local rep and do your best to attend branch meetings and the LTRC meeting which is held on the last Thursday of each month except June and December.

Meeting Agenda

We note the correspondence on file from Transport for London. We do not accept its abrogation of responsibility for Carlisle’s disgraceful refusal to pay the London Living Wage.

Transport for London (and other public bodies) must take responsibility for bodies in its chain of contracting. We further note the lack of response from Boris Johnson, and instruct the General Secretary to step up our public and political campaigning on this matter.

We note that a meeting is to take place with ISS on 18 April and instruct the General Secretary to place a report of this meeting in front of us.

We further note that ISS intends to only pay the uprated level of the London Living Wage six months after the uprating is announced, and claims that this is allowed for in its contract. We are appalled by this, which means in practice that our members are expected to live on less than a living wage for 50% of their lives.

The London Transport Region's Executive Member has given a report to the London Transport region at the recent Regional Council.

For full details all RMT members are invited to come to the meeting.

Regional Council meetings are held at the Exmouth Arms near Euston Station at 1630 on the last Thursday of the month, except June and December.

SODEXO
Recognition agreement signed
Pay and conditions claim to be drafted

REGIONAL COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
RMT complaints policy
Bob Carnegie
International solidarity conference in Paris

We note the report from our lead officer, that ISS has still not responded to our request for a meeting to discuss this issue. We instruct the General Secretary to pursue this, and should such a meeting not have been scheduled within 14 days, to place this matter back in front of us.

The latest edition of RMT London Calling Newsletter has been released. You can view or download it below.

In this edition:

• Job cuts: Now LU tears up machinery of negotiation
• Why has LU got to save money?
• Olympic robbery
• Still seeking justice for the 33
• ISS wants Cleaners to Pay for New Contract with LU
• RCIs Move Closer To Unprecedented Strike Ballot
• LT Regional Secretary, John Reid, in Camden Council Election Campaign
• LTRC Officers 2013

We note the report from our Regional Organiser, and accordingly declare this union in dispute with ISS on these matters, including:

• ‘Bradford Factor’ attendance rules
• new rostering, extending the unpaid break in the middle of the shift from 30 minutes
  to 45, 60 or even 75 minutes
• biometric booking on, including for agency staff
• non-payment of the increased London Living Wage until six months after the uprating

'Reintegration' brings new threat to pensions and conditions

RMT has slammed plans to transfer some Tube Lines clerical and project staff back in-house to TfL and London Underground without pension or travel facilities, and has threatened industrial action to defend the terms and conditions of its members.