Please find attached a leaflet regarding the detrainment reballot.
You may wish to display or distribute it in your train crew accomodation if you work on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee or Victoria lines.
Dear Colleague,
DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND
I refer to my previous email of 26th July 2023, as previously reported due to our members resolve to fight to protect their past and future final salary pension rights, management and Government decided to delay their proposal to begin a consultation period in respect of any proposed to reform the TfL Pension Fund no later than 1st July 2024.
19th June 2024
Dear Colleague,
REMOVAL OF DETRAINMENT STAFF - LONDON UNDERGROUND
All Train Operator and Instructor Operator members on the Bakerloo Line, District Line, Central Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Jubilee Line and Victoria Line have been taking action to physically check their train before detraining. Now due to the anti-trade union laws, this ballot mandate will expire and it is necessary to ballot members again for this action to continue.
I have produced a leaflet here and would ask you to circulate the leaflet as widely as possible.
Dear Colleague
New Tory threat to jobs and conditions and RMT statement on General Election.
Today the Conservative Party have published their General Election manifesto with the promise of even more attacks on the jobs, pay and conditions of transport workers.
In their manifesto the Tories show which side they are on. They describe the terms and conditions of rail workers as “unaffordable…unfair and unjustifiable.”
Let's talk about motions.
Last year a local representative discovered that period products varied not only in availability but also in price on their group. Train operators were being charged double and in one station five times the amount that station staff were for the same products. Responding to this feedback from members, the rep raised the matter and discussed it at their local branch, Piccadilly & District West.
BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, COCKFOSTERS & ARNOS GROVE DEPOTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)
A resolution was recently received from our Finsbury Park Branch and a report was received from the Lead Officer regarding a range of issues affecting Train Operator members at Cockfosters and Arnos Grove Traincrew Depots. The issues raised include the following:
· Breaches of the Attendance at Work Policy and particularly the application of section 5.2 on a number of levels, causing members stress and anxiety and concerns over their job security.
22nd of May, 2024
DISMISSAL, - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/4/1)
Further to my previous Circular (IR/123/24, 19th April 2024), all RMT members at Oxford Circus Area are congratulated for standing firm together against injustice during the strike action from 3rd to 4th May. Gerald's appeal hearing has now taken place but regrettably, LUL upheld the decision to dismiss him rather than taking action to rightly resolve this dispute.
Attached is a newsletter for London Overground members. Please download for more info. You could also print it out and distribute in your workplace.
Dear Colleagues,
DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND
Further to my previous Circular (IR/108/24, 3rd April 2024), the ballot has concluded with members voting as follows:
Are you prepared to take strike action?
Number of individuals who were entitled to vote in the ballot: 9782
Number of votes cast in the ballot: 5285
Number of individuals answering “Yes” to the question: 5112
Labour have announced that they plan to 'bring train operators under public ownership and control'.
Mick Lynch, RMT general secretary said:
"Labour's commitment to bring the train operating companies into a new unified and publicly owned rail network is in the best interests of railway workers, passengers and the taxpayer.
"We strongly welcome these bold steps to fix 14 years of Tory mismanagement of our privatised railways and Labour's promise to complete a transition to public ownership within its first term in office.