« 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
Download new NEC bulletin below
Below you can download the latest bulletin explaining how RMT will resist any increase in service without proper health and safety measures being in place. You can also download a copy of the report presented, by LUL, to the UITP, in which they raise the idea of cutting social distancing from 2m.
A story in the Telegraph (Sat 2 May) says the government is looking to abandon the advice to maintain 2m social distancing.
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.
RMT has now received confirmation from LUL that they are supporting the observance of a minute of silence at 11am on 28/4/20 as part of International Workers memorial Day, which marks all those who hahve lost their lives at work.
Download the new bulletin
Government looks to ramp up services - Social Distancing must be maintained
LUL Furlough
TFL say cleaners must still pay to travel
Wht we must argue for socialist way oput of crisis
Buses are now free to all, all RCIs are deemed unnecessary and furloughed...But Cleaners on the tube still have to pay to get to work.
That’s the message from TFL/LUL management. When we challenged them at the MDs weekly conference call we were told it was a tough choice but unaffordable. The letter from TFL/LUL can be downloaded below.
RMT cannot think of much that is more important right now than the heroic role of our cleaners.
They are doing the most valuable and dangerous work of all on the tube network during this pandemic.