Stratford no.1 branch has submitted the following resolution to RMT's AGM.

This AGM believes that across our industries, employers are using MFA/attendance policies to bully workers when we are sick, to force us either to attend work when we are not fit to, or out of work altogether.

We support our members who have been prepared to take industrial action over this, for example at Glasgow Central Virgin Trains depot, and at East Ham and Willesden Green station groups on London Underground.

We resolve that RMT should:

* continue to organise such industrial action where appropriate

* seek to link up action in different areas

* demand that sickness not be treated as a disciplinary issue, and that no-one with properly-certified sickness should be disciplined

* provide top-quality representation to members and support to reps

* organise a national campaign on this issue

* take advice about the legality of employers’ tactics

* link up with other trade unions in our industry and beyond, and urge the trade union movement as a whole to demand rights, dignity and freedom from bullying for workers when we are sick or injured.

Update: The AGM passed this resolution unanimously.