Black and ethnic minority RMT members are organising for equality and against racism.
From RMT London Transport Region Executive Janine Booth
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
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CSA Dayna Nembhard
After 8 years unblemished service, Dayna was callously sacked without any corroborated evidence to justify a Gross Misconduct charge.
Pregnant Dayna had finished work and stopped at the KFC for a bite to eat. Unprovoked, a white female customer racially attacked her. Fearing harm to her unborn child, mildmannered Dayna sought to defend
herself.
An updated leaflet has been created for the upcoming John Carlos Event.
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The Trade Union Congress' Race Commitee is holding a fundraising dance for the Stephen Lawrence Trust.
The dance takes place on Saturday 28th of April at Congress House.
Ticket can be purchased from Mick Nicholas - (mickn AT fbu.org.uk) of the Fire Brigades Union.
See the attached flier for further details.
The John Carlos Event: Resistance - The Best Olympic Spirit will be held at Friends House on Euston Road (Map) on the 21sth of May at 6pm.
Please print and distribute the attached flier amongst your friends and colleagues.
It was a moment that changed more than just Olympic history. That it certainly did, most iconic image of the Olympic Games and the Black Power movement also captured the mood, the anger and resistance of 1968.
This Branch/Region notes:
Christopher Alder, a former paratrooper, died in police custody in 1998. Christopher Alder choked to death on the floor of a police station in Hull where the CCTV recorded officers chatting and saying that Christopher was faking illness. They also appear to be making monkey noises at him and laughing.
That the London Transport Regional Council BEM, joins up with organisations and individual such as the Haiti First Haiti Now Reparation Campaign, Global Afrikan Congressuk, Pan Afrikan Society Community Forum, MPs and others interested in Reparation campaigning in 2012.
The 2012 campaign should have a number of mini conference leading up to the Annual Reparation Conference on Thursday the 23rd August.
These should be held on the following dates:-
1)Saturday 28th April at the TUC Black Workers Conference
2)Saturday 26th May Afrikan Liberation day
From London Transport Region Black & Ethinic Minority Officer Glen Hart
To assist providing RMT members with the latest news and campaigns from the Black and Ethnic Minority Member’s Committee, we are in the process of updating the BEM mailing list.
This will ensure that every RMT member interested with fighting the struggle for equality and against racism are aware of the campaigns.
We all face tough, difficult and daunting times ahead of us. How we organise together in solidarity, will be a determining factor.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note the documentation on file regarding TfL’s proposal to divide its Equality and Inclusion team into two parts, one for staff issues and one for service delivery. We endorse the objections that staff side have raised to this proposal. We further believe that this division inaccurately implies a significant difference between equalities issues facing workers and those facing passengers, whereas workers and passengers share similar a interest in an accessible, non-discriminatory transport system.
The RMT has organised a meeting to discuss 'racism, the state and the police.'
Please print and distribute the flyer amongst your colleagues and friends.
This special meeting aims to secure your solidarity. The meeting will cover the case of Sean Rigg and Christopher Alder. Sean, a young and talented musician died shortly after being detained by Brixton polive in 2008. Why he died remains unanswered.
Christopher Alder died in police custody in 1998. An inquest in 2001 recorded his death as unlawful killing. A year later, a court cleared the five police officers of manslaughter and misconduct.