The strikes are coming

Newsletter produced by Engineering branch
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The Coming Strikes: Why Support Them?
Q: Why Support the Strikes or be in RMT?
A: The RMT or any union is only as strong as its members!
The RMT is a strong union. With YOU we will be Stronger. Without YOU we will be weaker!
Right now LU are attacking Station Staff. They have also announced job cuts on the Lines for Signal & Track Staff with more to come
Our continuing and increasing strength will keep us safe and enable us to win even more gains: A NEW PAY DEAL HAS TO BE NEGOTIATED THIS YEAR!!!
(Some of the) Gains made by RMT Members on LUL/Metronet
• Unprecedented large pay increases whilst under privatisation in Metronet
• Defended and improved Terms & Conditions when we were privatised to Metronet
• Stopped Metronet de-valuing our pension by 10% when they went bust
• Won TfL Pensions, free Oyster Travel Cards and 75% off National Travel for all staff
• Won a raft of agreements protecting from job cuts, changes, rostering etc etc etc etc.....
• Won SPC/PMEH £10 payments and defended Higher Duty Pay
• Made management refill vacancies ~ Some of you only have got jobs because of RMT!
• Won the Olympic Bonus for working during the 2012 Olympics
• Won year-on-year big pay increases throughout the ‘credit crunch’ and the recession

All these victories and more were won by RMT members. Without RMT we would have got nothing but would have been smashed as a work force