London Transport Region's regional oganiser Jared Wood gives members an update on our jobs, pensions & agreements dispute, and lays out the next steps.
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31st August 2022
Dear Colleagues,
DEFEND JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS – LONDON UNDERGROUND
Further to previous correspondence, TfL has now settled its funding agreement with the Department for Transport. This was done without any input or consultation with the Union and as expected, it contains a raft of wholescale attacks on your jobs, pensions, agreements and also potential future pay awards.
Notably, the funding agreement contains and confirms the following attacks:-
As the TfL board meet in Palestra to discuss the proposed funding deal, RMT Regional Organiser Jared Wood joins the protest outside.
Unlike other European capitals the Government is refusing to provide proper funding for London Transport. As a result, our public transport could be on the brink of collapse. There are already cuts to services and staffing on bus and tube.
US Senator Bernie Sanders who is on a visit to the UK will be taking time out to join a RMT rally in solidarity with transport workers and their fight for a decent public transport system.
The Save London Transport Rally will take place on Wednesday 31 August in central London at TUC Headquarters, Congress House at 7.00pm.
Dear colleague,
As RMT members at the TOCs and Network Rail prepare to take further strike action on 18th and 20th August and members at London Underground and London Overground on the 19th August, please join General Secretary Mick Lynch and the rest of the Union's leadership at an important online member briefing on Wednesday 17th August at 6pm in support of the Union's campaigns to defend jobs, pay and conditions.
This will be an opportunity to hear the latest updates from the Union's leadership about the disputes and negotiations.
Dear Colleagues,
PUBLIC RALLY: SAVE LONDON'S PUBLIC TRANSPORT - Resist the managed decline of services, jobs and conditions, 7pm, Wednesday 31st August, Conway Hall, London, WC1R 4RL
Dear colleague,
TOC, Network Rail, LUL & London Overground - RMT Pre-Strike Online Rally
Wednesday 17th August from 6pm
As RMT members at the TOCs and Network Rail prepare to take further strike action on 18th and 20th August and members at London Underground and London Overground on the 19th August, please join General Secretary Mick Lynch and the rest of the Union's leadership at an online rally on Wednesday 17th August at 6pm in support of the Union's campaigns to defend jobs, pay and conditions.
Dear colleague,
PUBLIC RALLY: SAVE LONDON'S PUBLIC TRANSPORT - Resist the managed decline of services, jobs and conditions,
7pm, Wednesday 31st August, Conway Hall, London, WC1R 4RL
2nd August 2022
DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND - (LUL/14/2)
Further to my previous Circular (IR/135/22), dated 28th June 2022, this Union gave London Underground until today to provide assurances on three key issues of this dispute:
Strike action on the Tube and Overground to go ahead on 19 August
Transport workers on the London Underground and Overground network will take 24-hour strike action in separate disputes on August 19th.
Tube workers have been locked in a dispute over attacks to pensions and jobs for over 6 months while Overground workers employed by Arriva Rail London will strike over pay.