The following resolution submitted by LU Fleet was carried at the April 28th Regional Council meeting
Support Political Prisoners in Zimbabwe
This Resolution submitted by LU Fleet and amended by Piccadilly and District west was carried at the Regional council meeting on 26th May
Oppose the Cuts.
This Region opposes:
·The vicious attacks by the ConDem government on public services and working class people.
·The idea that public services should be cut in order to bail out the banks.
·Privatization and cuts to public services, whether NHS, education, civil service, transport industry or local authority, and will resist them.
This Region believes:
The 68th National Bus Workers Conference will take place on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th April at The Exeter Arms, Rydon Lane, Middle Moor, Exeter, Devon, EX2 7HL.
Driver Alarms, Fines Pool Subscriptions, Driving Regulations, TUPE clarification and the RMT diary are among the resolutions at this years conference.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
That we note the result of the ballot for ‘action short of strikes’ is as follows:-
Total votes cast: 45
Number voting “Yes”: 33
Number voting “No”: 12
Spoilt Papers: 0
We congratulate our members on their 73.3% majority vote to take action to defend their safety at work. We note that Finsbury Park branch will discuss this at its branch meeting tomorrow. Once the branch has given its recommendations for action, this matter to be placed back of us.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
That we note the resolution from our Hammersmith & City branch and the report from our Regional Organiser about London Underground’s plan to cut 8 duties from Hammersmith depot, with the loss of 3 substantive posts and a significant increase in anti-social working hours for drivers at Hammersmith.
Victimisation of RMT reps
FROM RMT PRESS OFFICE
On the day that Boris Johnson announced that he is going to sort the tube out for the Olympics the Mayor has been hit by a massive embarrassment as the entire service on the busy District Line stretch from Earls Court down to Wimbledon is closed this afternoon in advance of rush hour.
TFL are blaming emergency engineering works. An earlier stalled train at Putney Bridge took 80 minutes to de-train due to a shortage of staff.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said:
The Bakerloo Branch now meets upstairs in the Red Lion, Kingly St, near Oxford Circus on the first Monday of the month at 16:00 hrs
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Agenda Regional Executive meeting 1600-1800 ,12th April 2011
Venue:Unity House
1.Recruitment and organising.
2.Council Of Executive member & Regional Organisers reports
4.Job Cuts-ACAS Reviews
3.Update on passed Resolutions
4.New Resolutions
5.Other Business
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LUL Management Caught Out - Stations Operations Standards Manager?
No this is not an April fool. Although if you are a DSM you are not only being taken for a fool but being led up the garden path and out the door. In a recent recruitment campaign for Duty Station Manager when some of our members clicked on the link up popped an advert for “Stations Operations Standards Manager”. The company claim it was a typo error, Duty Station Manager to Stations Operations Standards