Management understaffing Train Ops on the Piccadilly Line

Submitted by Admin on 27 March, 2018 - 20:49

BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TRAIN OPERATORS, PICCADILLY LINE – LONDON UNDERGROUND

We note the resolution from our Piccadilly & District West Branch; and that a dispute situation is arising due to the intolerable behaviour from management understaffing Train Ops on the Piccadilly Line, attacking our Members through draconian use of the attendance procedures, breaching agreements and obstructing our representatives’ trades union duties.

Report, TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee, 20 March 2018

Submitted by Janine on 27 March, 2018 - 14:05

TUC DISABLED WORKERS’ CONFERENCE 2018

Venue accessibility: We noted our success in getting the TUC to change the conference location to an accessible venue. We looked at the detailed access statement for the venue, and I asked that a relaxation space be allocated for the use of conference attendees.

Stations Admin Update

Submitted by Lorna on 27 March, 2018 - 13:36

Your Transformation reps were due to meeting today (27/03/18) with London Underground, however, this meeting has been postponed until Thursday 29th March. We will give you a full update after that meeting, but this is the latest update.

Skills Development Update

Submitted by Lorna on 27 March, 2018 - 13:24

At the last consultation meeting your reps had with London Underground (20/03/18), we raised a few issues, including the action tracker being incomplete, staff we believe to be in the wrong pools and the company’s lack of communication with our members or your reps.

Senior Manager Admin Update

Submitted by Lorna on 27 March, 2018 - 13:01

Your Transformation reps were due to meet with London Underground today (27/03/18) for the latest consultation for Senior Management Admin. The last meeting with the company was on 2nd March and the company cancelled the subsequent meeting. We were very keen to meet them today, but unfortunately, yesterday evening, they cancelled the meeting.

LU Transformation Update

Submitted by Lorna on 27 March, 2018 - 12:49

On 22nd March 2018, your Regional Organiser, along with your RMT reps and reps from other unions, met with London Underground at Director Level to discuss a number of outstanding Transformation issues. These issues included the use of Fixed Term Contract Staff, the way the company is dealing with people on maternity and parental leave, and the way they are filling vacancies that have arisen through Transformation.

 

RMT driver wins Employment Tribunal - Judge takes less than 5 minutes to hand down unfair dismissal judgement.

Submitted by Eamonn Lynch on 26 March, 2018 - 21:28

  RMT – Never on our knees!

SACKED FOR GETTING WATER!

An RMT member on the Bakerloo Line was dismissed for gross misconduct last year after a battle lasting nearly a year. The case was a stitch-up by management from beginning to end, with a non-safety related staff error presented as gross misconduct and numerous other alleged Code of Conduct charges invented in order to beef up a feeble CDI brief.

RMT at ACAS for further talks today as industrial action looms on Docklands Light Railway this week

Submitted by Admin on 26 March, 2018 - 02:21

26th of March, 2018

RAIL UNION RMT today confirmed that it will be attending further ACAS talks today with Keolis Amey Docklands as industrial action looms on Docklands Light Railway this week.

The latest talks follow extensive efforts by the union to resolve through ACAS the wide range of issues at the heart of the dispute that amount to a comprehensive breakdown in industrial relations on a number of important fronts including:

Poster: RMT National Black & Ethnic Minority Members’ Conference 2018

Submitted by Admin on 22 March, 2018 - 00:01
We’re pleased to welcome veteran Black activist and trade unionist Marc Wadsworth. He will be delivering for the first time in Europe his Labour Movement “Liberation School” specially put together for our conference. It links up the fight for Black Rights in Britain with working class struggle of which it has historically always been a part.
Jeremy Corbyn with Marc Wadsworth
 

Assassination of female politicians in Brazil

Submitted by Admin on 21 March, 2018 - 23:48

A few months ago, we heard that Brazilian activist and comrade, sister Tamaris Rizzo, keynote speaker at RMT’s reparations conference, was facing difficulties in Brazil, with political turmoil and social/ethnic cleansing in her community.

Tamaris, an activist for ’21 days Without Racism,' alerted us to; 12 persons being shot dead in her local area, military rule over the police, and, personal difficulties with losing her teaching job because of her trade union and political activism.