'Easthammer' March 2009

The new issue of East Ham branch's newsletter urges all members to vote Yes in the current industrial action ballot. Click '1 attachment' / file name to download it. Read the text below.

Ballot papers are out! Vote Yes!

Ballot papers will be coming through your door over the next few days. Please make sure that you return your paper regardless of how you intend to vote. Management always make a big deal over those that do not vote. We need to Show them how disgusted we are with this offer. We need a united front to return a massive yes vote. It is in your interest to vote yes for industrial action as a first step to safeguarding your pay and conditions.

The offer on the table is in fact a real terms pay cut over the next five years. The present financial situation is so unpredictable it would criminal for our leadership to sign up to a five year deal. It would be a total betrayal to sign up to the deal on the table at present. While MPs are awarding themselves £100,000 per year plus expenses, we are being asked to take cuts.

If the bosses are asked to sign long term deals they have golden handshakes and massive pensions written in to the contract. We are being offered a shockingly bad deal with nothing at all at the end of it. We must fight to preserve our pay and conditions against this blatant attack. This one rule for them one rule for us philosophy has to be changed. We are entitled to eat at the table as we provide the food. We will no longer accept the scraps; we demand a share of the banquet. Make sure that you vote. Do not waste your Vote! VOTE YES!

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RMT East Ham Branch meets on the first Thursday of every month at 16:30 in the East Ham working men’s club Boleyn Road
(Turn right out of Upton park station and left into Barking Road at the Boleyn pub. Boleyn Road is on the left pass the shops.)

Branch Chair: Chris Tugwell.
Branch Secretary: Andy Izard.

If you wish to send articles or comments to this newsletter, please send them to your local rep who will forward them to the branch editorial board for attention.