Justice for Danny Davis

RMT Upfront: Danny Davis Special

RMT Upfront is the newsletter for London Underground drivers from RMT activists.  In this special edition focusing on the case of train driver Danny Davis:

  • Danny Davis Reinstated, Fight continues to get him back on the front of a train
  • The Incident
  • Danny Reinstated
  • CCTV obscured
  • The ballot results
  • Trains meeting report

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Central line drivers: Vote yes to defend Danny Davis

DISMISSAL, D. DAVIS, TRAIN OPERATOR, LOUGHTON – LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/4/1)

Further to my previous Circular (IR/368/17, 23rd August 2017), ballot papers were posted to all Central Line Train Operator, Night Tube Train Operator and Instructor Operator grades on Tuesday 29th August so members should have received them. The ballot closes on Tuesday 19th September 2017.

Train driver Davis ballot begins on 29th of August

DISMISSAL, D. DAVIS, TRAIN OPERATOR, LOUGHTON – LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/4/1)

The National Executive Committee has recently considered the case of Brother Danny Davis and taken the decision to conduct a ballot for strike action amongst all RMT Train Operators, Night Tube Train Operators and Instructor Operator members on the Central Line – Hainault, Leytonstone, Loughton, West Ruislip and White City Traincrew Depots.

Danny Davis sacking - bosses buried crucial evidence

RMT DISCOVERS CRUCIAL CCTV FOOTAGE BURIED BY MANAGEMENT AND HIDDEN AT CDI

RMT has discovered that management did not present all the evidence at Danny Davis’ CDI, and vital CCTV evidence was knowingly buried and withheld.

There are 17 CCTV cameras that saturate Ruislip Gardens Station and yet management selected and presented footage from only 2 cameras to the CDI panel withholding crucial CCTV footage showing P-Way near the ramp and ballast at the front of Danny’s train at the time of the PTi incident.

Ballot of drivers in defence of Brother Davis to be extended

We note the resolution from our Central Line West Branch requesting that all Train Operators from White City and West Ruislip be balloted alongside comrades already being balloted from Central Line East for industrial action.

This NEC too condemns the highhanded and overly severe treatment of Bro Davis by London Underground management and note the following:

There are many comparators of similar and even more serious incidents where the Train Op had either no action taken against them or a much more appropriate sanction. These were ignored.

Central line drivers to be balloted after overly severe treatment of colleague

We have received the updated report from our Central Line East Branch regarding the highhanded and overly severe treatment of Bro Davis by London Underground management and note the following:

- There are many comparators of similar and even more serious incidents where the Train Op had either no action taken against them or a much more appropriate sanction. These were ignored.

- Mitigations contributing to Bro Davis’ incident around his wife’s ongoing illness and home life were brushed over.