Please Find Attached the December Edition of 'The Neasden Flyer'

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THANK YOU - For Solidarity with Strike Action'
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• Bob Crow confirms to Sky News plans for further strikes in New Year - here
• US site Bloomberg reveals that the strike could cost London's economy £48m: here
• The Guardian repeats the inaccurate statement that the strike is about "800 ticket office job cuts" - here (I have written a letter challenging this)
• The Harrow Times appears peeved that TfL told them there would be a Metropolitan Line service then could not deliver one - here
• The Press Association reports that TfL stands accused of lying - here
• Evening Standard: Ed Miliband accused of dithering over dispute - here

I support the strike - as a woman who often travels alone on tubes I really value having hard working and helpful tube staff on hand to ask for assistance.
Keep on fighting the cuts!
Katy Arnold

I totally support what ever action you have to take to defend your members and our tube/rail services.
Paul Neale, Fire Brigades Union

Good luck in your dispute. It's a shame more workers didn't get organised, join unions and take on these wretched bosses - they make me sick, think they can walk all over people and get away with it.

By James Wong McSweeney, RMT Regional Young Members' Officer:

On Wednesday 15th December at 10am a delegation from the RMT will present hundreds of signed postcards from passengers across London to the Mayor, Boris Johnson, calling for an end to the threatened jobs massacre. As part of this a protest has been called to raise awareness of what the reality of the jobs massacre will be and to call for the re-instatement of the three victimised reps: Arwyn Thomas; Eamonn Lynch; and Peter Hartshorn.