From RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Mick Cash
rates of pay & Conditions of service 2014 – Balfour Beatty (Ruislip) (LUL/0001/BBR)
Branches are advised that following talks with the company for Improved Rates of Pay and Conditions for 2014, the company offered an increase of 2.6% which is unacceptable to our representatives.
From RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Mick Cash
Further to my circular (IR/37/14) dated 23rd January 2014,branches will recall that our Service Control members on the Waterloo and City Line are taking industrial action short of strike action over the union’s legitimate and reasonable demand for re-grading. I can advise branches that this action is holding firm and that on one occasion the Waterloo & City Line had to close due to lack of cover.
From RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Mick Cash
I write to update you on the situation within LUL following our decision to suspend further industrial action last month.
We are now half way into the seven week period of extensive talks. In this time there was an initial meeting of the JWP to set out a programme for the seven weeks. Then, the week before last, there were two further meetings of the JWP. Last week we met as a main group once and this was followed by smaller working meetings. These are now pencilled in for up until the end of March together with weekly meetings of the main group.
From RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Mick Cash
Further to my previous circular IR/729/13 dated 18th December 2013, branches will be aware that following the referendum, members overwhelmingly rejected the 2013 pay offer. Whilst your union welcomed the move from individual contracts to collective bargaining, your union remains of the view that this offer was unacceptable as, for some members; the offer represented a below-inflation pay rise.
From RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Mick Cash
The following resolution has been received from London Transport Regional Council:
“This Regional Council condemns the arrest by BTP of Mark Harding, the RMT Branch Secretary of Hammersmith & City Branch. Mark was arrested despite only carrying out legitimate trade union activities whilst on the picket line outside his place of work.
More from the ETF Women's Committee meeting on 19-20 March 2014
Women's Health and Safety at Work
The ETF Women's Committee meeting on 19-20 March 2014 heard the following reports:
SECTION REPORTS
Civil aviation
Unions are campaigning for a non-punitive reporting system, and demanding consistency of workplace rules across all grades, from cabin crew (female-dominated) to pilots (male-dominated).
Dock/Ports
Rail union RMT , along with the Battersea and Wandsworth TUC, will be holding the latest in a series of anti-rail cuts demonstrations and public meetings next week, distributing postcards and leaflets and engaging with the public at Clapham Junction Railway Station between 5.30 and 6.30pm on Wednesday 26th March 2014 with a public meeting later in the evening at 7pm at the PCS HQ building at 160 Falcon Road right next to the station.
Speakers at the public meeting include,
PETER PINKNEY (RMT NATIONAL PRESIDENT)
JOHN MCDONNELL MP (CONVENOR RMT PARLIAMENTARY GROUP)