With 44 years service and only 13 working days until his retirement, Steve Hover, a respected and well-liked Loughton driver, was summoned to attend a Local Disciplinary Interview (LDI) for infringing LUL’s punitive sickness policy, and given a vindictive 23-week warning.
Read about the tribunal here.
Elaine Holness Employment Tribunal February 6 2012
Elaine will finally get her chance to have her case heard at the Employment Tribunal in West Croydon on Monday Feb 6. Please make every effort to come down and support our comrade who has been treated so disgracefully since March 2009 by LUL and until we secure her re-instatement the victimisation dispute should not be considered closed.
On Thursday's edition of BBC London, during an item about the £2500 Olympic Bonus for Docklands Light Railway workers the Fire brigades' Union was incorrectly quoted as saying "The Fire Brigades Union has told us tonight that they think this deal is unfair.”
The FBU was quick to correct the misquote issuing a statement to all their members:
Download the full minutes of the 'Stations and Revenue Control Safety Council Staff Side' meeting for January 2012 here.
STRIKES BY some 150 cleaners on three contracts across the Channel tunnel network have come a step closer after RMT members voted by overwhelming margins for industrial action in a bid to raise appallingly low pay levels.
The union has demanded fresh talks with subcontracting employers OCS and Initial after workers on the OCS Eurostar contract and Initial’s Eurostar and the Network Rail Channel tunnel rail link contracts endorsed action with only two votes cast against.
RMT general secretary Bob Crow said:
Stations and Revenue Control Safety Council
Staff side
General Update
Jan 2012
If you're logged in to the site you can download the original document here.
Aftermath of Person under train incidents-storage of bodies.
Following on from consultation on this matter, we attended a meeting on 12th Jan.
LTRC RESOLUTIONS
You can read Council of Executives decisions relevant to our region here
The Triangle Benefit Gigs are being held to support The Triangle Adventure Playground in Oval, which is fighting to stay open after its council grant was cut.
The second of two nights which will see Jamm come alive with some of the UKs biggest artists on Saturday 28th of January, 8pm to 6am.
Brixton Jamm is promoting the gig and their website and describes the value of the playground facing closure:
"Opened in 1957, the Triangle Adventure Playground is the oldest playground of its kind in London and a fully functioning playground costs £111,784 per annum to run.
From General Secretary Bob Crow
The TUC is dedicating this year’s Workers’ Memorial Day, Saturday 28th April, to a Day of Action to defend Health and Safety. They are producing a series of bulletins that will assist reps and activists to organise for the day with important discussion topics. The first two ‘Defending Regulation’ and ‘The Need for Enforcement’ are available online now. (see below)