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Please download and share the report below.

Attached are the Neasden Branch meeting dates for 2021. 

Please note the following: 

At the January branch meeting will be dealing with nominations and elections for the following positions;

RMT General Secretary
Wembley Park IR trains
Jubilee West Tier 1
Jubilee North Tier 1

The branch is also seeking nominations for the following;

Young members officer
Political officer
Women’s officer.

Wishing you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year! 

The Neasden Branch AGM will be held on Wednesday 16th December at 16:00hrs.

Due to current restrictions, the meeting will be held online via the Zoom Video Conferencing site (log-in details available nearer the time). 

The meeting will deal with Branch Officials for 2021, the AGM for 2021, delegate nominations, and also nominations for the Wembley Park Trains (Level 1) Rep Position.

Zoom Log-in details for the AGM will be posted on this page. 

TfL Funding Deal Between Mayor and DfT

« Any attempt to make tube and TfL workers pay will be met with a ballot for strike action

« RMT is mounting a political campaign to demand full government funding for public transport at this time.

« If the banks could be saved after 2008 then the jobs of working people and public services can be bailed out now.

I have posted below a copy of RMT’s new NEC policy statement on fighting redundancies and attacks on members pay and conditions.

The BBC recently reported that UK firms started consultations on over 300K redundancies in June and July alone. The NEC has taken reports on redundancy threats to RMT members in all sectors. It is vital that we discuss how we can resist job losses and attacks on pay and conditions in the period of economic crisis we are entering.

This is unlikely to be a run of the mill cyclical recession. The Financial Times reports that,

The government is putting pressure of TfL and LUL to run a near 100% service to help carry more passengers as people are told to go back to work whether they can socially distance or not.

No plan,

No risk assessments in key areas,

No way to limit passenger numbers

No plan to protect bame staff who are 4 times more likely to die after contracting covid 19

Download and distribute the bulletin below

Dear RMT members( London Transport Region)

 As you will see below in our Press release, RMT has concerns re next Monday 11th May being start of government led mobilisation across Britain’s Railways.

Accordingly I immediately wrote to LUL the Managing Director, specifically in relation to all TfL. The M. D confirmed explicitly that this is not the case for TfL and their services ,that their planning date ( which is not fixed 100% ) is still 18th May.