Finsbury Park Monthly News - August 2010
Submitted by plectrum on 24 August, 2010 - 02:16Click on the attachment below to read or download the August edition of Monthly News, the newsletter of Finsbury Park branch.
In this edition:
News, reports and information for RMT members who work for London Underground Ltd
Click on the attachment below to read or download the August edition of Monthly News, the newsletter of Finsbury Park branch.
In this edition:
On 11 August, RMT members protested outside Euston station against London Underground's planned job cuts.
Click '1 attachment' / file names to download the leaflet and poster that we used on the day.
The new issue of our 'RMT London Calling' newsletter asks how it is that TfL/LUL 'can't afford' frontline jobs and regular maintenance, but can afford massive salaries for directors. It also reports on the Alstom pay dispute, Euston escalator fire, Northern line runaway train and other issues, and replies in detail to last week's London Underground management bulletin about our industrial action ballot result.
Click '1 attachment' / file name to download it.
Click '1 attachment' / file name to read details of TfL / London Underground directors' pay.
A few examples of how much some of our bosses were paid in 2009/10:
Assistant General Secretary Pat Sikorski discusses cuts to jobs at LU and changes to maintenance routines at London Underground. The interview took place whilst RMT activists were leafletting passengers at Euston station.
In the interview, conducted with Geoff Martin, Pat explains "We're telling everyone here at Euston that it's cuts in jobs in stations like this that is going to cost lives in the future....we had a fire in an escalator, the alarm failed to go off - it took alert station staff members to evacuate the station and save lives"
Are you prepared to take strike action?
Are you prepared to take industrial action short of a strike?
Wednesday 11th August, Euston Station, London, 8.30am
RMT is holding a mass leaflet of the public on Wednesday morning outside Euston Station and we’d be grateful for your assistance. Wednesday is the day that the LUL ballot result will be announced.
Four weeks ago an escalator fire at Euston was identified by station staff - who might not have been present if the cuts had taken place. For details, click here.
If you can, please join us for an hour on Wednesday.
Regards, Olly New
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association and RMT are to hold a joint meeting on the 24th August 2010 at 6pm to discuss the action against job cuts on London Underground. The venue is Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, (opposite Euston Station) in the Small Meeting Room.
RMT and TSSA are both balloting members for strike action over the cuts of up to 800 jobs.
The following people will be speaking at the meeting:
This is an open meeting and members are invited to attend for an open discussion with the union leaders on how to combat these unnecessary and dangerous cuts.
This resolution, submitted by Stratford no.1 branch and amended by Finsbury Park branch, was passed by the August meeting of the Regional Council ...
This Regional Council believes that RMT's pay claim to London Underground for 2011 should include: