Update: London Underground Job Cuts

Submitted by Janine on 31 January, 2011 - 13:18

New Stations Rosters - Minus Jobs!

London Underground’s new stations rosters - minus hundreds of jobs - are due to come in on 6 February. Staff will be expected to work even more anti-social hours with staffing levels so low that stations will struggle to cope. Ticket offices will be open for significantly shorter hours, causing huge extra workload for staff in the ticket hall and elsewhere around the station - and yet, despite LU’s claims, their numbers are being cut too.

Join our Olympics Sub-Committee!

Submitted by Janine on 31 January, 2011 - 11:18

RMT London Transport Regional Council has decided to set up an Olympics sub-committee. The purpose of this is to highlight the issues facing our members during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, monitor the various employers’ plans, and campaign for a decent bonus and to prevent the introduction of casualised forms of working.

Draft Minutes: Regional Council meeting, 27 January 2011

Submitted by Janine on 30 January, 2011 - 19:45

ATTENDANCE

  • Bakerloo – Brian Munro, Eamonn Lynch, Steve Spurgin, Sean Geoghegan
  • Camden No.3 – Geoff Palmer
  • Central Line West – Vaughan Thomas (later part of meeting), Stefan Melnyk, Ross Marshall (meeting chair)
  • DLR – Darren Arnold
  • East Ham – Gary Lazell, James Wong-McSweeney
  • Finsbury Park – John Kelly, Glenroy Watson, Dave Rayfield, Dean O'Hanlon, Frank Curtis, Derek Bishop, Neil Cochrane
  • Hammersmith & City – Mac McKenna, John Colville
  • Jubilee South & East London Line –
  • London Taxis –

RMT Marches with Students

Submitted by Janine on 29 January, 2011 - 21:06

RMT members joined other trade unionists and students in marching through London today to protest against rises in tuition fees, cuts in education funding, and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).

EPS branch banner
placard says clegg epic fail









NUT placard
janine speaking




The last photo shows me speaking at the opening rally, giving solidarity greetings from RMT - after a speaker from the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts had sent a speaker to our Regional Council meeting two days previously.

RMT Marches with Students

Submitted by Janine on 29 January, 2011 - 21:03

RMT members joined other trade unionists and students in marching through London today to protest against rises in tuition fees, cuts in education funding, and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).

EPS branch banner
placard says clegg epic fail









NUT placard

Resolution: Fare Rises

Submitted by Admin on 27 January, 2011 - 11:27

This resolution, submitted by Camden 3 branch and seconded by Finsbury Park branch, was carried unanimously by the January 2011 Regional Council meeting:

This Regional Council believes the RMT should make the most of public anger around:

  • extortionate January fare rises (some prices doubled, others up 18%)
  • Oyster cards now £5
  • Abolishing intermediate zones travelcards

The campaign organised by the union should include: public leafletting, press releases, freedom of information requests on where Oyster incomplete journey charges go to, and investigating possible legal avenues for staff and passengers to pursue.

Council of Executives report, 27 January

Submitted by Janine on 26 January, 2011 - 23:00
  • I have been appointed to the following Executive subcommittees - Equal Rights, Olympics, General Finance, Staffing, Health & Safety
  • RMT grades and equalities conferences will be taking place over the next few months - all branches, please send delegates and resolutions
  • Black & Ethnic Minority Members Advisory Committee has agreed to organise an anti-slavery event in September - series of talks on various aspects of past and modern slavery, followed by evening concert

High Court Injunction Against DLR Strike

Submitted by Admin on 26 January, 2011 - 21:56

From Bob Crow, RMT General Secretary:

I write to advise branches that last week the High Court granted Serco Docklands an injunction preventing RMT from organising a 48 hour strike on the Docklands Light Railway. Yet again an employer has run to a High Court Judge to use the Anti trade union laws to ignore the democratic will of members. This decision has ramifications not just for RMT but across the whole Trade Union Movement and is the latest of a long line of high court decisions against trade unions.

RMT Continues Campaign Against Victimisations

Submitted by Admin on 25 January, 2011 - 19:25

RMT General Grades Committee decision ...

That we welcome the decision of the Employment Tribunal to award Interim Relief to Brother Thomas, which reaffirms this union’s belief that London Underground dismissed him because of his trade union activities. Given LU’s dismissals of Eamonn Lynch – who also won his Interim Relief application – and Peter Hartshorn, we can see a concerted anti-union campaign by the employer that must be met by a concerted campaign in defence of our union and its representatives and activists.

Is London Underground Discriminating Against Part-Time Staff?

Submitted by Admin on 25 January, 2011 - 18:05

RMT General Grades Committee decision:

That we note that London Underground has issued notices displacing full-time staff only within the group of stations in which they currently work, but has issued notices displacing part-time staff to locations beyond their current group of stations, in some cases some distance away. It also intends to alter the working hours of some part-time staff in a way that is detrimental to them. The company has also failed to adequately consider part-time workers in its Equality Impact Assessment. We believe that London Underground may be acting in breach of the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations.