Cleaners Olympics Pay
Submitted by 1913 Lockout on 11 October, 2011 - 22:35The following resolution submitted by Finsbury Park Branch was carried unanimously at the October 27th Regional Council meeting.
The following resolution submitted by Finsbury Park Branch was carried unanimously at the October 27th Regional Council meeting.
The Service Control Functional Council recently requested some recognition for the extra work we will be doing during the Olympics.
Please see the attached leaflet.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note the correspondence from London Underground concerning our objections to the ‘deal’ over train drivers’ working conditions during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the offer of a meeting between the Chair of the Trains Functional Council and our Regional Organiser to discuss this.
We instruct the General Secretary to ensure that this meeting takes place and to obtain a report of the meeting from our Regional Organiser, which is to be placed in front of us.
Attached is the full ASLEF/LU agreement for the Olympic games. Appendix 1 outlines managements facility to change both duties AND rest days at 3 days notice.
From General Secretary Bob Crow
I write to advise you that despite London Underground announcing yesterday that a deal has been reached for Train Drivers during the Olympic Games period, RMT has not agreed to this deal; and as such your RMT Representatives’ registered a failure to agree at the Trains Functional Council meeting. I can confirm that RMT reject this deal.
Here are the minutes of the Olympic working 'Trains Functional Council' meeting. The RMT representative voted against the proposals, however the proposals were voted through by other staff side representatives, all members of ASLEF.
The proposals include:
Click 'read more' to read the minutes, or download them below.
Please find attached a 'Special Edition' of London Calling newsletter reporting on the 2011 Pay and 2012 Olympics rewards claims
In this edition
To the shock of every driver on the combine the ASLEF/Management alliance has cooked up behind closed doors a so called ‘Olympics deal’. At the heart of this deal is the ripping up of our hard earned driving parameters that form our Train’s Framework Agreement. In essence, ASLEF/Management want to run a 21st Century railway with 19th Century terms and conditions.
Download the attached pdf to read the latest edition, or if you have a modern browser you can see it by clicking 'read more.'
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note that London Underground management announced yesterday that they have reached a ‘deal’ for train drivers during the Olympic Games period. RMT has not agreed this deal; this union registered our failure to agree at the Trains Functional Council meeting.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
The General Secretary is instructed to get a report from the Regional Organiser on the up to date position on the negotiations on LUL/TFL and all other companies working under auspices of TFL.
We change the file to now read TFL instead of LUL and we put Serco Docklands file on this main file.