Station staff, drivers, engineers, cleaners, admin, underground and overground, full-time and part-time, ... RMT women from all over London met to discuss issues and campaigning plans over lunch on 3rd May. The event was a big success, and will soon be followed by an East End women’s history walk and picnic on Saturday 23rd June. More information from women@rmtlondoncalling.org.uk, or find our RMT Women group on Facebook.
From General Secretary Bob Crow
Please find attached an appeal from Amnesty International in respect of Haiti. I would be grateful if Branches could respond to this appeal for action.
Transport union RMT today slammed leaked reports that venture capitalist, Tory-funder and Cameron oppo Adrian Beecroft is preparing to publish a study recommending a full-frontal attack on workplace rights.
Beecroft, who has funded the Tories to the tune of a half a million pounds, has been set up by Cameron to be his out-rider for attacking worker’s rights in the same way that McNulty was tasked with doing a similar number on the railways.
London Underground and Tube Lines are to be prosecuted by the Office Of Rail Regulation following a runaway engineering train on the northern line.
Back in August 2010, the defective engineering train ran backwards through six stations after it separated from the train which was towing it off of the line.
A collision with a passenger train was averted thanks to the quick actions of control room staff and train operators on the day.
Seize The Time
The event "Resistance - The Best Olympic Spirit", organised by the RMT, will be held at Friends House on Monday 21st May at 6pm.
Tickets are available for free from Unite Against Facism.
View the flyer here or download below.
Speakers include John Carlos, Doreen Lawrence and Janet Alder.
There will be several unforgettable speakers at the meeting:
7pm: John Carlos, Doreen Lawrence and Janet Alder
RAIL UNION RMT today published leaked internal documents showing that London Midland plan to profit to the tune of £1.25 million a year from their programme of savage cuts to ticket offices and staffing levels.
London Midland are blazing a trail for the McNulty plans to axe ticket offices and eliminate station staff and, as RMT have exposed from leaked Department of Transport emails, are doing so in direct collusion with the Government.
RMT ACTIVISTS from London Underground are proud to have initiated a public meeting “Resistance – the Best Olympic Spirit” with one of the two athletes who featured in arguably the most iconic image from the modern history of the games, John Carlos who raised a gloved fist along with his comrade Tommie Smith on the podium in Mexico in 1968.
RMT ACTIVISTS from London Underground are proud to have initiated a public meeting “Resistance – the Best Olympic Spirit” with one of the two athletes who featured in arguably the most iconic image from the modern history of the games, John Carlos who raised a gloved fist along with his comrade Tommie Smith on the podium in Mexico in 1968.
An additional motion has been added as an attachment below. It was inadvertently left off of the agenda originally sent out
I enclose for your attention the invitation to the 2013 National Conference of Signalling and Operations Grades that will take place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th February 2013 in the Prince Consort hall at the Winter Gardens, Royal Parade, Weston-super-Mare.
Items for the agenda, including resolutions, invitations for future conference venue,
nominations for officers, executive committee seats and auditors must reach the Conference
from General Secretary Bob Crow
Please find attached a copy of Generation Lost – Youth unemployment and the youth labour market, a report from the TUC.
Produced as a discussion document, rather than a TUC statement of policy, the pamphlet outlines a number of proposed measures to reduce youth unemployment both in the short term and long term.
I hope you find the material useful, addressing as it does an issue of great significance to RMT and all trade unionists.
In its recent budget, the government raised the minimum wage for over 21 year olds in line with inflation, but froze the minimum wage for under 21 year olds. The minimum wage is currently at £6.19 an hour for people aged over 21, compared to £4.98 for under 21 year olds.
There is no evidence to support the government’s argument that this will help to get young people into work. Instead, this unjust measure will only serve to widen the increasing intergenerational inequality that we are seeing in Britain, and force hundreds of thousands of young people further into poverty.