The London Transport Regional Council have organised a meeting on Thursday 1st March to launch the Campaign against London Undergrounds plans to slash Jobs and introduce Driverless Trains.The meeting will also discuss the Olympics Bonus.Please make every effort to attend.
Venue
Thursday 1st March,6PM
Friends Meeting House
Small Room
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note the work-life balance policy of London Underground Ltd. While it is far from perfect, we are concerned to ensure that our members are aware of the rights that they do have, and that management are upholding these rights.
We therefore instruct the General Secretary to
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note the report from our Regional Organiser, that LUL has now imposed its withdrawal of cleaning vouchers and considers the issue to be closed. We instruct the General Secretary to ask our branches and representatives what impact this policy is having on our members, and to place responses in front of us.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note that there has been an unsatisfactory situation for apprentices in London Underground Ltd’s Machinery of Negotiation since LUL arbitrarily allocated them to the MATS (managers, admin, technical, support) function rather than to service control.
We instruct the General Secretary to ensure that any outstanding issues with this are addressed during the forthcoming review of the Machinery of Negotiation.
London Transport Regional Council and branches with London Underground members to be advised.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note the report from our Regional Organiser, and the strong feeling of our service control members about how London Underground is treating them. We therefore agree to declare a dispute with the company, and instruct the General Secretary to prepare a matrix for a ballot for industrial action.
The main issues are as follows:
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note the report from our lead officer and reject Tube Lines’ offer on the following grounds:
Here are the branch minutes for Stratford No 1 branch for February 2012.
Click 'read more' to see them, or download the original document below.
An open letter has been sent by RMT Stations and Revenue Council Safety Council Staff Side Secretary Ross Marshall to LU Managing Director Mike Brown.
The letter regards "The comments.... made in relation to several questions regarding staffing levels, the current review on stations, the fact that LU had presented the OSP plans as a fait accompli and other problems related to the OSP." Questions are also being asked about the review of staffing levels at a handful of stations, and why the RMT is not being involved with on this review.
Click 'read more' to see the letter or download the attachment for the original document.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
We note that Carlisle Cleaning Services has agreed to recognise RMT as the sole trade union representing all hourly-paid cleaning employees, and ratify the recognition agreement contained in the file. We congratulate our Regional Organiser and DLR branch in achieving this. We instruct the General Secretary to include a report in RMT News and to send a personal letter by post to all our members on this contract explaining what recognition entails and enclosing a membership form so that they can encourage their workmates to join.
These are the issues I covered in my report to the Regional Council on 23 February: