OLYMPICS 2012 – LONDON OVERGROUND
Your unions’ negotiating team has been holding talks with London Overground to discuss the proposals put forward by management with regards working and payment arrangements for our members in the run up to and during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. I can report that a final agreement has been reached.
OLYMPIC RECOGNITION & REWARD – FIRST CAPITAL CONNECT
I have now received a formal offer from First Capital Connect in respect to working during the London Olympics. The offer is as follows:
Customer Services (Stations and Revenue Protection)
OLYMPIC RECOGNITION & REWARD – C2C
I have now received a formal offer from c2c in respect to working during the London Olympics. The offer is as follows:
ON THE first full day of the RMT AGM in Torquay delegates are set to hear reports from the continuing fight for Olympics payments at three major train operators and Transport for London.
Although RMT has secured fair payments at a number of companies including Network Rail, Virgin Trains, London Overground. Heathrow Express, DLR and London Underground the union is in dispute and balloting at three key TOC's - South West Trains, Greater Anglia and First Great Western - and has announced industrial action for centrally employed TFL staff.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said:
If you are doing the same job as permanent staff then you have the right to join the RMT. A poster has been created by TfL branch for union noticeboards to get this message across to agency workers in the transport industry.
Reps - please print out and display on relevant noticeboards with you name and contact details.
Join the RMT and get protected.
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From TfL No1 Branch Secretary Linda Wiles. You can download the original version of the newsletter which is attached below this article
"Management aren't treating us with the dignity and respect we deserve by trying to break existing agreements"
Recognised members in Travel Information Call Centre, Travel Information Centres, all areas of Oyster, Lost Property Office & Customer Services voted 63% in favour of strike action and 77% in favour of action short of the strike.
This is a decisive mandate for industrial action and a clear message that TfL RMT members will fight to defend their current terms & conditions and for the fair and decent reward they deserve for the additional Olympic and Paralympic workloads.
“The hypocrisy of TFL managers, who stand to hit the bonus jackpot during the Olympics while offering...staff virtually nothing, stinks like a sack of rotting fish." - Bob Crow
STAFF WORKING directly for Transport for London are to take strike action and action short of a strike over the total and abject failure of the organization to offer any kind of meaningful recognition and reward for the huge increase in workload and pressure arising from the extended Olympics period and for attempting to impose changes to working conditions and a unilateral ban on annual leave in some departments.
After an overwhelming vote for action RMT has instructed members to take industrial action as follows:
RMT reps attended ACAS with London Underground Ltd today to discuss our service control dispute.
We confirmed the issues which have forced us to call industrial action, and received an initial, verbal response from management.
LUL will put its response in writing by Monday, and there will be further talks on Tuesday. So far, however, the company has not provided the answers that our service control members need to assure them of their future job security, fair treatment and adequate representation.
So our industrial action remains ON.
