Please Find Attached the October Edition of 'The Neasden Flyer'
Inside this issue
THANK YOU - For Solidarity with Strike Action'
Station Unstaffed - Drivers not to stop
Flats & Seat Tags Safety Standards lapse
RMT Executive election Who your branch has nominated
"This emergency budget deals decisively with our country's record debts"
Research by PCS shows that between 1918 and 1961 the national debt was over 100 per cent of GDP. Today it is 56.3 per cent.
Our debt is lower as a proportion of GDP than the economies of the US, Japan, France and Germany.
"The richest will pay more than the poorest. Not just in terms of cash but as a proportion of income as well"
Official circular from RMT head office
RMT said today that after this union agreed to take part in talks on the basis proposed by ACAS and LUL Management having welcomed this, LUL then announced that they wished to revise the ACAS terms of reference. Talks are therefore adjourned while we await LUL Management putting their new position in writing.
All this followed LUL’s announcement of further job cuts prior to talks at ACAS.
from Vaughan Thomas printed in the London Evening Standard Letters Page 20 October 2010
TfL claim that only the delays on the Metropolitan Line this week were caused by the RMT's overtime ban, imposed in protest at massive job cuts. But since the start of the ban there have been a series of station closures for part of the day as staff numbers have fallen below minimum numbers at stations including Barbican, Liverpool Street, Lambeth North, Finsbury Park and Charing Cross, and the District and Jubilee Lines have experienced rolling stock shortages.
RMT's General Grades Committee today made the following decision:
That we note the report from our Regional Organiser, the resolution from our Finsbury Park Branch and we understand that similar concerns are shared by our Piccadilly and District West Branch. There is no doubt that our representative is facing victimisation and must have the full backing of this union.
This matter is referred to the Southern Sub Committee for examination and report.
RMT's General Grades Committee took the following decision today:
We note that after this union agreed to take part in talks on the basis proposed by ACAS, and LUL Management having welcomed this, LUL then announced that they wished to revise the ACAS terms of reference.
Talks are therefore adjourned while we await LUL Management putting their new position in writing.
All this followed LUL’s announcement of further job cuts just prior to talks at ACAS.
"Keep up the struggle against the job cuts. Of course it is political, as Boris keeps reminding us, it would be when you want to sack workers and cause a lot of social conflict.
"It's a shame that the political dominance of ideas has made people so selfish. It doesn't matter if you can't get to work for a couple of days - solidarity with the tube workers."
Carl Linkson, WEA GMB Tutor
NEWS RELEASE from the Greater London Assembly
The London Assembly today called on the Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) to rethink plans to cull up to 800 jobs on the Underground because of the adverse affects for passengers.
The Assembly believes the proposed cuts will damage customer service and leave passengers feeling less safe at stations where only one member of staff is present, particularly early in the morning and late at night.
I have sent the following message of support to French rail strikers. You can read about their action here.
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I am writing on behalf of the London Transport Region of the National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) here in the UK. I write to tell you of our strong support for the action you are taking in defence of pensions.
Talks at ACAS today concentrated on setting up a review of London Underground's plans to 'reorganise' ie. cut jobs. The talks finished for the day shortly before 6pm, and will reconvene tomorrow at 1pm.