From General Secretary Bob Crow
I am pleased to inform you that the National LGBT Members’ Conference has been extended to take place over two days. The next conference will be in Blackpool on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th May 2013 at The Best Western Carlton Hotel, 282-286 North Promenade, Blackpool FY1 2EZ.
From General Secretary Bob Crow
I am pleased to inform you that the 2013 National Women’s Conference will take place in Nottingham on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th March 2013. The venue is The Ramada, Nottingham City Centre, 19-21 Wollaton Street, Nottingham NG1 5FW.
RMT LGBT demonstration: Solidarity with Ugandan LGBT people! Stop the "Kill The Gays" bill!
Location: UGANDA HIGH COMMISSION, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, WC2N 5DX (Map).
The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality “Kill the Gays” Bill has been placed on the schedule of Parliament - meaning it will be on business of the day any time from now.
The Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Uganda has called for protest actions across the World.
From RMT General Secretary Bob Crow
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REMINDER: National Lobby of Parliament for Cleaners in the Transport Industry
I am writing in relation to national lobby of Parliament for RMT cleaners. The lobby will take place on 11th December 2012, at 15.00 in Committee Room 14 in the House of Commons.
The lobby will be addressed by myself and several MPs and will discuss the issues facing cleaners in the transport industry and how those issues relate to our current disputes.
The RMT held a rally prior to the industrial action held be cleaners working for ISS and Initial on London Underground and Carlisle on the Docklands Light Railway.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, Assisant GS Steve Hedley and London Transport Exective Council member Janine Booth spoke at the event along with Richard Crane an RMT cleaner member and members of other unions and political groups.
Richard talked about the struggles faced by cleaners in making ends meet as low pay meant paying bills and looking after family was almost impossible, with many other cleaners he knew working second and even third jobs to make end meets.
From General Secretary Bob Crow
As a key element of the strategy to gain justice for all our cleaning members working in the transport industry, the Union has planned co-ordinated industrial action against the employers we are currently in dispute with over pay and conditions, to take place on 30 November/1 December.
I am writing to advise you of an eve of strike rally arranged in London at 7.00 pm on Thursday 29 November at:
From General Secretary Bob Crow
RMT’S CHARLES WATKINS’ MEMORIAL LECTURE: NUT OFFICES, LONDON, TUES 27 NOVEMBER 2012, 6:00PM
RMT’s guest speaker to deliver this year’s Charles Watkins’ Memorial Lecture is labour movement academic Professor Roger Seifert, whose lecture will be entitled Strikers, communists, tramps, and detectives – lessons from the 1966 seafarers' dispute.
The RMT held a protest outside the Russian Federation Embassy in Kensington to voice our disgust at the governments attacks on gay rights and to voice our support for LGBT people in the country.
RMT's activists organised leafleting and a demo at the embassy on Tuesday. As the building is in a private road we were ushered to a site prepared by the police who were ready for with barriers in place.
From General Secretary Bob Crow
Dear Colleagues,
DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST ATTACKS ON GAZA: SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER
This Saturday there will be marches in London and other cities around the country to demonstrate against the attacks on Gaza.
The details for the London demonstration, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), are:
Assemble: 12:00 Downing Street (nearest tube Westminster)
March to the Israeli Embassy
From General Secretary Bob Crow
Dear Colleagues,
DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST ATTACKS ON GAZA: SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER
This Saturday there will be marches in London and other cities around the country to demonstrate against the attacks on Gaza.
The details for the London demonstration, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), are:
Assemble: 12:00 Downing Street (nearest tube Westminster)
March to the Israeli Embassy