The next Hammersmith & City Line branch meeting will take place on Wednesday 4th August from 5pm at the Exmouth Arms, 1, Starcross Street, Euston, NW1 2HR.
The nearest tube stations are Euston and Euston Square.
London Transport Region held a training day for branch membership secretaries on 26 July. Thanks to everyone who came along and took part. The day seemed to go very well, and I hope everyone got something out of it.
As well as training the membership secretaries, we managed to also generate quite a few ideas and plans, as follows:
Regional Council to:
In April, RMT's London Transport Regional Council wrote to disabled people's organisations as part of our 'SOS: Staff Our Stations' campaign, alerting them to London Underground's planned job cuts and the difficulties that these will cause to disabled passengers. You can read our letter here. Several organisations representing disabled people have now sent the following letter to Mayor Boris Johnson, opposing the job cuts.
Dear Mr Johnson,
Click '1 attachment' / file name to download as a Word document
Report by Ross Marshall, Neasden Branch
Delegates to the AGM were as follows
Steve Datta Central Line West Branch
Jim Harding H+C Branch
Martin Keown LU Fleet Branch
Andy Littlechild LU Engineering Branch
Ash Malik Stratford no.1 Branch
Brian Munro Bakerloo Branch
Pat O’Brien Camden 3 Branch
Glenroy Watson Finsbury Park Branch
Bob Law Jubilee South and East London Line Branch
Ross Marshall Neasden Branch
In the minutes for July 10th, 2010:
Venue: Somers Town Community Centre, Ossulston Street
Details of agenda, resolutions etc here.
Venue: The Old Star, opposite St. James Park station (Park / Broadway exit) 12-4pm - drop in at any time
All RMT women are welcome to join us for an informal lunch. This is your opportunity to meet other women members in a friendly setting and discuss any issues which matter to you as a female transport worker.
So, what's on your mind? Job cuts? Management bullying? Discrimination? Working in a male-dominated industry? Balancing work and family responsibilities? Sexual harassment? Sexist comments? Pregnancy? Health and safety? Menopause? Safe travel to and from work?
Stratford Number One branch have released their latest newsletter.
It contains information about LU's attack on jobs, with the reasons why all grades including train operators need to support the ballot for action against these cuts.
Click 'Read More' to see the full newsletter.
"I wanted to protest vigorously at the planned cut of staff at Warwick Avenue Station.
"This very busy station is important to all its users- tourists, locals, business people travelling at peak times. It has been the target of many incidents prevented by the attendance of its vigilant and kind staff
"I feel that it is important to keep it adequately staffed at all times."
Ann Futter
The Regional Council (with the very great help of the Stations & Revenue Grades Committee Secretary!) has been compiling statistical information on membership levels on station groups and traincrew depots. We calculated the density (percentage of RMT members at each location) for stations and trains, and will soon carry out the same exercise for other grades.