RMT press releases

RMT cleaners, security staff and travel safe officers on Docklands Light Railway will be taking part in strike action this week

Submitted by Admin on 20 February, 2018 - 03:27

Strike action goes ahead on DLR this week in dispute over breakdown in industrial relations.

RMT cleaners, security staff and travel safe officers on Docklands Light Railway will be taking part in a further phase of strike action over a comprehensive breakdown in industrial relations this week as the intransigent attitude of the management continues to block any chance of progress towards a negotiated settlement.

RMT to government: reinstate TfL funding grant

Submitted by Admin on 12 February, 2018 - 23:01

RMT calls for Government to immediately reinstate Transport for London grant to protect safety and services

Amid reports that Transport for London is facing a £1 billion funding gap next year, transport union RMT is calling on the Government to immediately reinstate the full revenue grant being cut as part of its austerity measures.

The union is warning that the funding crisis could have devastating consequences for safety and services as well as impacting severely on the London and wider UK economy.

48 hours of strike action goes ahead on DLR over breakdown in industrial relations

Submitted by Admin on 1 February, 2018 - 01:08

RMT cleaners, security staff and travel safe officers on Docklands Light Railway will be taking part in a further 48 hour phase of strike action from today over a comprehensive breakdown in industrial relations after talks failed this week due to the intransigent attitude of the management. The workers are employed by contractor ISS on the KAD contract.

RMT members to strike on DLR on New Year’s Eve over breakdown in industrial relations

Submitted by Admin on 19 December, 2017 - 21:23

RMT cleaners, security staff and travel safe officers on Docklands Light Railway will be taking strike action on New Year’s Eve over a comprehensive breakdown in industrial relations. The workers are employed by contractor ISS on the KAD contract.

The dispute has arisen over the failure to hold meaningful pay talks or provide a proper response to the union’s pay claim and the failure to resolve long standing issues.

RMT members working for ISS (KAD Contract) are instructed to not to book on for any turns of duty that commence between:-

Kings Cross fire 30th anniversary

Submitted by Admin on 18 November, 2017 - 14:17

RMT's Mick Cash on eve of Thirtieth anniversary of Kings Cross fire.

17/11/17

RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said:
“RMT will be attending the joint commemoration event on Saturday and our thoughts will be with all of those who lost their lives or were injured in this tragic event which still resonates throughout the transport injury thirty years on.

£8.5 million bonus bonanza for TfL top bosses

Submitted by Admin on 10 November, 2017 - 13:05

RMT on news of £8.5 million bonus bonanza for TfL top bosses

RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said:

“It is frankly appalling that at a time when there are £5 billion worth of cuts and over 1400 job losses being lined up by Transport for London that the very top brass are lining their pockets with huge pay and bonus packages at public expense.

No new money in bogus "£85 billion rail plan"

Submitted by Admin on 3 November, 2017 - 14:10

30th October

No new money in bogus "£85 billion rail plan" as RMT exposes double accounting and phoney figures behind the spin

RAIL UNION RMT today slammed industry bosses club the Rail Delivery Group for pumping out the same old stream of bogus propaganda this morning in a desperate bid to con people into buying their claim that private train operating companies are investing in the UK when, in fact, they are robbing hundreds of millions of pounds from the British people to invest in domestic transport operations in other parts of Europe.

Life risking incident on unstaffed tube station could have been averted

Submitted by Admin on 26 October, 2017 - 16:17

TUBE UNION RMT today demanded the immediate staffing  of ALL London Underground stations – or the closure of stations when they are unstaffed – after  another dangerous incident at an unstaffed station. 

At Ruislip station last Friday (20 Oct) as a train was pulling into the platform, a young person jumped from the platform onto the tracks. Due to the driver’s quick reactions he was able to bring his train to an emergency stop which prevented the youth being hit. 

Piccadilly Line cuts lead to service chaos

Submitted by Admin on 26 October, 2017 - 16:08

TUBE UNION RMT today demanded that London Underground halt and reverse maintenance cuts and key asset sales after if emerged that reductions in vegetation management and the flogging off of a key piece of kit were major factors in the “wheel flats” fleet crisis that has dogged services on the Piccadilly Line for a number of years. RMT is warning that the next round of cuts being lined up to the TFL budget could unleash similar travel chaos but on an even wider scale.