RMT Upfront is the newsletter for London Underground train drivers, produced by the RMT activists.
This edition focuses on health & safety issues:
Please download the attached newsletter to read more, and print, display and distribute it in your train crew accommodation.
Dear colleagues,
Reminder: This Saturday - 'After COVID - Demand a New Normal!' - People's Assembly National Demonstration
Calling all RMT Station grade members - A very important mass meeting is happening next week on Wednesday the 30th June at 6pm.
To join, please register here www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MM7Y3SP
Please download and share the report below.
Jubilee South branch meeting is taking place on Zoom, Wednesday 30th of June at 4pm. These branch meetings take place each pay day at the same time.
London Underground has started talking about their plans to make cuts, and we need to get ready as a union to fight back and defend our jobs, pensions and conditions.
Jubilee South News, attached, has info for Tube workers. Please distribute it in your Jubilee South branch area and come along to the meeting and encourage others to join you too.
The fight back starts here!
Dear colleague,
TFL: No cuts, no austerity - unity is strength
This morning, your Regional Organiser and London Underground reps met with LU management to discuss the company's response to the government's funding settlement with TfL. At the meeting, London Underground managers invited the unions to work with them on implementing cuts.
RMT was absolutely clear in response. We told them that there was no question of this union colluding in implementing cuts in jobs, pay or terms and conditions.
Free Our Unions has a public meeting on 20th July at 7pm, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1871 Trade Union Act.
Details are online at https://freeourunions.org/2021/06/08/online-meeting-tuesday-29-june-630p...
Free Our Unions is supported by the RMT and members are encouraged to join the meeting and get involved.
Whilst the company believes wearing a pink hi vis contributes something to customer service, in this hot and humid weather it can in fact contribute detrimentally to your health, safety and wellbeing.
Knowing your rights as a worker is vital!
The Health and Safety at Work Act, The Workplace Health Safety and Welfare Regulations, and The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations protect workers against employers who
put your safety at risk.
It’s a big game tomorrow and a big challenge for our network. Station staff are crucial to the safe management of stations, this of course includes platforms. The PTI (platform train interface) is the most dangerous part of a station environment and an accident at the PTI can have fatal consequences.
- Download the attached newsletter from RMT H&S. Tier 2 to learn more.
RMT's London Transport region welcomes the news that the Home Office has rescinded the order to deport young, black, autistic man Osime Brown following his conviction under the unfair and racist 'joint enterprise' law.
It is important for trade unions to recognise and challenge injustice outside the workplace as well as in it. So when the union's disabled activists raised Osime's campaign, we agreed a resolution backing Osime and sent it to our National Executive.