RMT Blasts Mayor’s “Transport Strategy” As A Smokescreen For Job Cuts

Submitted by Peter on 11 May, 2010 - 13:30

RMT blasts Mayor’s “transport strategy” as a smokescreen for job cuts, ticket office closures and attacks on safety standards

TUBE UNION RMT today blasted London Tory Mayor Boris Johnson for throwing up a smokescreen under the guise of a “Transport Strategy”, designed to deflect attention away from his multi-billion transport cuts package that threatens thousands of jobs, ticket office closures across the Capital and a systematic undermining of current safety standards.

'RMT London Calling', May 2010: Stop These Jobs Cuts & PPP RIP

Submitted by Janine on 10 May, 2010 - 19:06

The new issue of 'RMT London Calling' gives lots of facts and arguments against London Underground's plan to cut 800 jobs. It also celebrates the end of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the return of Tube Lines to public ownership, while warning TfL not to make workers pay the price.

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download it. Please distribute widely.

Your Right to be Accopmanied to Disciplinary and Grievance Hearings

Submitted by Janine on 10 May, 2010 - 09:23

Section 10.1(a) of the Employment Relations Act 1999 states:

Right to be accompanied

(1) This section applies where a worker—

(a) is required or invited by his employer to attend a disciplinary or grievance hearing, and

(b) reasonably requests to be accompanied at the hearing.

(2) Where this section applies the employer must permit the worker to be accompanied at the hearing by a single companion who—

(a) is chosen by the worker and is within subsection (3),

Left and trade unions organising coalition to defeat cuts by ‘neoliberal coalition government’

Submitted by Admin on 9 May, 2010 - 18:42

From the Labour Representation Committee ...

The left and trade unions have started organising a broad coalition against the incoming coalition government and its plans to cut public services, jobs, pensions and benefits. There is no popular mandate for cuts and, as in Greece, any attempt to impose them will be firmly resisted.

John McDonnell MP, LRC Chair, said:

Passengers Say: Staff Our Stations!

Submitted by Admin on 9 May, 2010 - 09:14

Here are some of the responses we have received from passengers to our 'Staff Our Stations' leaflets:

"White City Tube Station is very busy and well and is situated at the heart of a large residential community and serves a number of major businesses such as the BBC and Westfield Shopping Centre. I object most strongly to the proposed staff cuts at this station."
Simon McKay

The Law Versus the Trade Unions? A Discussion Between Lawyers

Submitted by Superman on 8 May, 2010 - 10:41

An interesting and informative discussion is to take place on thursday 27th may. Reps and activists could benefit by attending. It may provide interesting ideas on how to solve problems in their workplaces.

The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and the Institute for Employment Rights invite you to hear Lord Wedderburn QC and Jim Mortimer (former Labour Party General Secretary) in conversation with John Hendy QC

"The Law Versus the Trade Unions? Reflections on the Past and Strategies for the Future".

Cuts Leave Tube Stations Unstaffed On 439 Occasions In The Past 6 Months

Submitted by Peter on 8 May, 2010 - 02:31

Figures obtained by RMT show that from October 2009 through to March 2010 surface level stations on the District, Central, Metropolitan, Circle & Hammersmith and Northern Lines were left unstaffed for entire shifts on a total of 439 occasions. One station, Mill Hill East, was left unstaffed for 95 entire shifts.

Current cuts plans being implemented by London Underground would see up to 800 ticket office, station and platform staff jobs axed creating a wave of ticket office closures and ushering in a culture of unstaffed tube stations, particularly late at night.

Minutes: Regional Council, 29 April 2010

Submitted by Admin on 7 May, 2010 - 17:43

ATTENDANCE

  • Bakerloo branch – Jim McDaid, Malcolm Taylor
  • Camden No.3 branch – Tony Gandolfi, Joanna Prestwich, John Reid, Pat O’Brien, Geoff Palmer, Becky Crocker
  • Central Line West branch –
  • DLR –
  • East Ham – Claire Reilly, Gazell Lazell, Andy Izard, Unjum Mirza
  • Finsbury Park branch – John Kelly, Dean O’Hanlon, Frank Curtis, Will Reid, G Deyle
  • Hammersmith & City branch – Josie Toussaint-Pinnock, Mac McKenna, Mark Harding
  • Jubilee South & East London Line branch – Lynda Aitken
  • London Taxis branch –