LUL safety and jobs – congratulations on another solid strike
Dear Colleague,
I would like to congratulate you on delivering another rock-solid strike to defend safety and jobs.
TfL’s dishonesty about the effects of the dispute, as well as their lies over unstaffed stations have now well and truly caught up with them and that the public no longer trust them.
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.
London Underground's response to the RMT's ballot to reinstate victimised rep Eamonn Lynch is not the most robust of arguments.
Perhaps Mr Ramsay would like to put out a bulletin which answers the following questions:
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.
The latest Branch newsletter features articles on the Tribunal Judge's ruling on Eamonn Lynch's sacking, the jobs and safety strike and LUL's Rainbow procedure.
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ATTENDANCE
This resolution, submitted by LU Engineering branch, was carried unanimously by the November meeting of the Regional Council.
That this region fails to understand the logic of the talks at ACAS over the station job losses that have excluded our elected Regional Organiser and left the team at ACAS without an elected official to represent and negotiate for us all at these talks. We therefore call on this exclusion to be withdrawn and our Regional Organiser reinstated to these talks.
This resolution, submitted (and amended) by Finsbury Park branch, was carried by the November meeting of the Regional Council:
This Region calls upon the union to urgently campaign for an escalation of the action in the dispute regarding jobs and safety on LUL as already agreed at regional level in order to win the dispute.
We recommend that one of the days for action should be Saturday 18th December.
This resolution, submitted by Bakerloo branch, proposed by East Ham and seconded by LU Engineering, was carried by the November meeting of the Regional Council.
The LTRC congratulates all RMT and TSSA members for their solidarity and determination to resist the attacks on our job from the tube bosses and the Tory Mayor. We also place on record our thanks and sincere appreciation to those non members who respected our picket lines.
This resolution, submitted by Finsbury Park branch and seconded by Stratford no.1 branch, was carried unanimously by the November meeting of the Regional Council:
This Union will not accept the introduction of 5 rounders on the Victoria Line.