5:30, Monday 10 October
Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET
More info - https://freeourunions.wordpress.com/2022/09/21/protest-on-10-october-stop-trusss-new-anti-union-laws/
Dear colleague,
RMT campaign wins cleaners free travel
On Sunday the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced that from April next year ABM cleaners will be given the same free travel as other directly employed TfL staff. The Mayor also announced that he will instruct TfL to look at ensuring cleaners get sick pay and will review again the outsourcing contract with ABM in April 2023.
RMT today welcomed the news that heroic cleaners on London’s Underground network will receive free travel on Transport for London services as of the new financial year.
Following a long campaign fought by the union, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has today announced that the cleaners, who are outsourced to US company ABM, will finally get the free travel given to directly employed TfL staff. The Mayor has also asked TfL to look into making sure the cleaners get sick pay and to assess whether they can finally be brought in-house in April 2023.
Responding to the Chancellor's comments in his mini budget on further restrictions for unions, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said:
"We already have the most severe anti-democratic trade union laws in Western Europe and this latest threat will rightly enrage our members.
"The government should be working towards a negotiated settlement in the national rail dispute, not seeking to make it even harder to take effective strike action.
In the latest newsletter from the RMT River Thames branch:
Please download the attached newsletter to read all the articles.
Circular No: IR/195/22
8th September 2022
Dear Colleagues,
DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS AND AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)
Further to my my previous Circular (IR/166/22), dated 10th August 2022, the Regional Organiser has met with your representatives to discuss the funding agreement recently made between the Department for Transport and TfL.
London Transport Region's regional oganiser Jared Wood gives members an update on our jobs, pensions & agreements dispute, and lays out the next steps.
read more about our ongoing fight here.
Save the dates! We Demand Better! TUC mass lobby of Parliament and Autumn of Action
Dear RMT member
Mass Lobby of Parliament - Wednesday 19th October 2022
This winter, working people will be pushed to breaking point. The cost of everything is going up - from energy and fuel, to food and other household essentials, whilst at the same time wages are being cut.
This economic crisis is no accident. It is a direct result of successive failures of government, and a government that puts profits before people.
Welcome to your new H&C Branch Newsletter.
Please download and distribute.
31st August 2022
Dear Colleagues,
DEFEND JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS – LONDON UNDERGROUND
Further to previous correspondence, TfL has now settled its funding agreement with the Department for Transport. This was done without any input or consultation with the Union and as expected, it contains a raft of wholescale attacks on your jobs, pensions, agreements and also potential future pay awards.
Notably, the funding agreement contains and confirms the following attacks:-