Celebrate ‘A History of Action by Women Workers.’ International Women’s Day was born out of the struggle of women in the New York City garment industry at the turn of the century and in Russia in February 1917 where their protests turned revolutionary.
The course will outline these developments at the beginning of the 20th century and consider their relevance today.
Speaker - Liz Leicester
The fifth issue of 'Fit for the Fightback: Trains' is now available. In this issue is an article explaining what our recent success means and a warning that it is only a short term success forcing LUL to begin talking with us properly. There is also an article on RMT activist Mark Harding, who was arrested on the picket line last week.
This is the fifth of our special trains 'Every Job Matters' dispute newsletters produced in the past month, aimed at keeping drivers up to date with the latest dispute news.
Following further talks at ACAS, your Executive Committee considered a proposal from London Underground to resolve our dispute. Having considered this proposal, your Union has suspended all industrial action including the strike that was due to commence from this evening. Therefore you are instructed to work normally.
I can advise you that the full details of the deal reached at ACAS and subsequently confirmed by formal correspondence from LUL is as follows:
ASLEF Longsight Branch have called on their union to support RMT activist Mark harding who was arrested on a picket line during our 'Every Job Matters' industrial action. The motion passed by Longsight branch was backed unanimously.
The motion
Emergency Branch Res Feb 2014 Longsight Branch
Mike Harding, branch secretary of the Hammersmith and city RMT, is being victimised for carrying out his legitimate trade union activities
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said: “After two days of intensive and detailed discussions through the offices of ACAS we have now received proposals that halt the implementation of the job cuts set out in the HR1 document which gives us the opportunity to discuss all of the issues away from the pressure cooker.
“We now have a golden opportunity to look again in detail at all of the concerns we have raised about the impact of the cuts on our members and the services that they provide to Londoners. That is exactly what we have been calling for throughout this dispute.
Today, your functional representatives attended ACAS, unfortunately despite the many options offered by the RMT London Underground management didn't budge.
We have stated many times that we can only discuss future plans for London Underground when they agree to stop implementing the changes without proper negotiations and discussions.
So far we haven't been able to see eye to eye. We remain hopeful and will attend tomorrow, however we are still unable to call the action off due to management’s reluctance to put a hold to the cuts and enter into meaningful negotiations.
Dear RMT members
Today we returned again to ACAS . Having adjourned over the previous weekend.
At today's talks there were some proposals made by management verbally , that whilst making some progress did not sufficiently address our core concern of LUL implementing the cuts/fit for stations proposals whilst we are in discussion negotiations.
The talks have adjourned now until 0900 tomorrow 11/02/14 .LUL have told us that they will revise their position and present it to the union .
This action is suspended - more here
Tube Union RMT confirmed today that following a ballot of members across London Underground in a dispute over jobs, services and safety that recorded a massive vote for both strike action and action short of a strike members are instructed to take action as follows:
Strike Action