These are the opening speeches from this event, held on Zoom on Tuesday 22 March 2022.
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Sarah Woolley (General Secretary, Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers’ Union): Welcome to the joint RMT and Free Our Unions TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference fringe meeting.
Britain will find this lecture a great opportunity to discuss how we can fight back against Tory anti-union laws.
When:
Thursday, 27 October 2022,
19:00 - 20:30 BST
Where:
Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU
What:
Special lecture by Ben Sellers, Director of the Institute of Employment Rights.
Tickets £3/5 booked in advance
5:30, Monday 10 October
Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET
More info - https://freeourunions.wordpress.com/2022/09/21/protest-on-10-october-stop-trusss-new-anti-union-laws/
Save the dates! We Demand Better! TUC mass lobby of Parliament and Autumn of Action
Dear RMT member
Mass Lobby of Parliament - Wednesday 19th October 2022
This winter, working people will be pushed to breaking point. The cost of everything is going up - from energy and fuel, to food and other household essentials, whilst at the same time wages are being cut.
This economic crisis is no accident. It is a direct result of successive failures of government, and a government that puts profits before people.
US Senator Bernie Sanders who is on a visit to the UK will be taking time out to join a RMT rally in solidarity with transport workers and their fight for a decent public transport system.
The Save London Transport Rally will take place on Wednesday 31 August in central London at TUC Headquarters, Congress House at 7.00pm.
Dear colleague,
As RMT members at the TOCs and Network Rail prepare to take further strike action on 18th and 20th August and members at London Underground and London Overground on the 19th August, please join General Secretary Mick Lynch and the rest of the Union's leadership at an important online member briefing on Wednesday 17th August at 6pm in support of the Union's campaigns to defend jobs, pay and conditions.
This will be an opportunity to hear the latest updates from the Union's leadership about the disputes and negotiations.
Dear colleague,
TOC, Network Rail, LUL & London Overground - RMT Pre-Strike Online Rally
Wednesday 17th August from 6pm
As RMT members at the TOCs and Network Rail prepare to take further strike action on 18th and 20th August and members at London Underground and London Overground on the 19th August, please join General Secretary Mick Lynch and the rest of the Union's leadership at an online rally on Wednesday 17th August at 6pm in support of the Union's campaigns to defend jobs, pay and conditions.
Dear colleague,
PUBLIC RALLY: SAVE LONDON'S PUBLIC TRANSPORT - Resist the managed decline of services, jobs and conditions,
7pm, Wednesday 31st August, Conway Hall, London, WC1R 4RL
SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKERS - Morning Star Public Rally, Weds 10 August 2022
Dear Colleagues,
Senior Assistant General Secretary Eddie Dempsey will be speaking at the Morning Star rally SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKERS at the Indian YMCA (41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ) on Wednesday 10 August 2022.
Other speakers include Mick Whelan (ASLEF), Daniel Kebede (NEU), Ruth Hayes (Unite), Helen O'Connor (GMB), Sarah-Jane McDonagh (TSSA), John Hendy QC and Ben Chacko (Morning Star editor).
London Demands Better - TUC Meeting - Monday 13 June 2022, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Unions demand an urgent response to the cost-of-living crisis - The cost-of-living crisis is raging. But don't just get angry - get organised!