Emergency Resolution: Emergency Right to Work Conference

Submitted by Admin on 23 April, 2010 - 10:01

This resolution, submitted as an emergency resolution by LU Fleet and seconded by Jubilee South & East London Line, was carried unanimously by the April meeting of the Regional Council:

1. We note with concern the pre-election commitment of the leaders of all three major parties that public services will be cut in order to fund the public budget deficit.

2. We deplore the attacks made by David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Lord Adonis together with the right wing media on those workers, such as the BA cabin crew, trying to defend their rights, conditions and pay.

RMT Condemns Takeover Of Arriva By Deutsche Bahn

Submitted by Peter on 22 April, 2010 - 20:02

THE £1.59 BILLION takeover of the Arriva transport group was condemned today by Britain’s biggest specialist transport union as another worrying step towards the creation of a pan-European private transport monopoly.

RMT will be seeking urgent meetings with DB and its newly acquired subsidiaries in order to safeguard the jobs and interests of its members.

Scandal Of Tube Bosses On Huge Salaries Who Want To Slash Station Staff

Submitted by Peter on 22 April, 2010 - 19:42

A study by RMT of Transport for London’s latest accounts reveals that the number of managers earning between £70,000 and £99,000 had more than doubled to nearly 800 – which matches the number of front-line station staff that Tube bosses want to axe.

EVER MORE London Tube bosses are being paid telephone-number salaries while hundreds of front-line staff face the axe, the RMT union charges today.

Letter to disabled people's organisations: Staff Our Stations!

Submitted by Janine on 21 April, 2010 - 20:06

I have written to over 50 disabled people's organisations in and around London about London Underground's proposed job cuts. Read the letter below ...

I am writing on behalf of the RMT trade union to alert you to London Underground’s plan to cut 800 station staff posts and to severely reduce its ticket office opening hours. I believe that this move will seriously reduce the service that London Underground offers its passengers, and will have a particularly adverse effect on disabled passengers.

Non-payment of London Underground Pay Rise

Submitted by Admin on 21 April, 2010 - 12:09

Today is London Underground pay day, and staff have been shocked to discover that their pay does include the 4.2% rise that should have applied from 1 April. After a long-running dispute last year, the pay deal was agreed in December, so London Underground has had plenty of time to arrange for the year 2 rise to be paid on time.

RMT suggests that staff may wish to submit a grievance, and recommends the following wording ...

Grievance to Employing Manager

TUSC Election Campaigning

Submitted by Admin on 21 April, 2010 - 10:45

The RMT is supporting Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidates in the general election. To make sure there are the best votes possible – and also to discuss with as many people as possible about the need for a working class alternative to all the main parties – we are asking all RMT members in London to help out in the last two weekends of the election campaigns. There will be leafleting, stalls, and canvassing.

To help in Walthamstow for Nancy Taaffe contact sarahsachseldridge@socialistparty.org.uk

To help in Greenwich with Onay Kasab contact onaykasab162@yahoo.co.uk

Notes from Regional Council Executive 13 April 2010

Submitted by Admin on 20 April, 2010 - 20:14

Present: Janine Booth, Nigel Eivers, Neil Hodgson, Adrian Rowe, Gavin Bowtell, Carol Foster, Micky Hyde, James Wong-McSweeney, Adrian Finney, Glenroy Watson, Pat O'Brien, Andy Littlechild, Mark Harding

In attendance: Steve Hedley, Regional Organiser

1. RECRUITMENT AND ORGANISING

  • Dave Rayfield not in attendance - on demonstraiton in Lille.
  • Last Regional recruitment & organising day; poor attendance - alternative suggestions requested and agreed :
    • combine leafleting passengers against job cuts with visiting workplaces (stations and trains)

Resolution: London Underground industrial action ballot

Submitted by Admin on 19 April, 2010 - 14:48

This resolution, submitted by the Regional Council Executive, was carried unanimously by the April meeting of the Regional Council ...

This Regional Council is very frustrated by the lack of progress in carrying out the union's decision to ballot our members for industrial action to stop London Underground's plan to slash 800 jobs.

We understand the problems caused by the anti-union laws. However, we believe that the union can and must, as a matter of urgency, prepare and carry out this ballot.

We remind our national officers that 800 jobs are at stake.