A newsletter has been produced for cleaners working for ISS. It includes information about ISS attempt to introduce 'fingerprint booking on' and explains the unions aspirations for cleaners at work.
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RMT is committed to fight against the 12% cuts demanded by Boris and enthusiastically carried out by LU management.
The most immediate target for LU, as they seek to wield the axe, will be ticket offices and station supervisors. Most members will, by now, have seen reports in the Standard as well as in London Calling of management’s plan to close all ticket offices and slash the number of supervisors by making each one cover up to five stations.
But the cuts demanded by Boris and LU will go much further than this.
This briefing itemises anti-trade-union legislation since 1980. It then looks further back into history, and examines some of the key issues in Britain's anti-union laws.
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London Underground continually fails to open ticket offices because of staff shortages, as the board in the picture testifies.
How can it be thus, there were 33 agency workers sacked by LUL earlier this year? These workers were ticket office clerks, staff who would have been able to open ticket offices that LUL claim they have not enough staff for.
Referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union
Congress notes the last referendum on Britain’s place in Europe was in 1975 in respect of membership of the Common Market.Since then there have been five further treaties, meaning the European Union now has a clear political as well as economic structure.
Congress deplores the fact that being gay is illegal in 76 countries, and in 10 of these it is punishable by death or imprisonment. It is also well known that LGBT people in many more regions around the world are victims of violence, such as targeted killings, violent assaults and torture.
Congress therefore looks to the TUC to help the campaign to end discrimination against LGBT people around the world as a human rights principle generally and also to be able to respond swiftly to international events, prioritising case-by-case incidents.
Congress calls on the General Council to:
This is the RMT emergency motion which will be put to TUC congress
Congress notes the “Struck Out” report issued by the Greater London Authority Conservatives on 22nd August 2013 proposing to ban strikes on London Transport and instead use “binding pendulum arbitration" - in which a judge or panel would choose between the positions of the trade union and Transport for London.