RMT Young Members Conference 2011
Plymouth, Thursday 24th February – Saturday 26th February
To: All Branches & Regional Councils, Regional Organisers and Head Office Officers & Staff.
Dear Colleague
Young Members’ Conference 2011
RMT members have elected Janine Booth as our new representative on the union's Council of Executives.
You can read about the role of the Council of Executives here.
Email: j.booth@rmt.org.uk
Phone (office): 020-7529-8810
Phone (mobile): 07900-408493
Janine will be posting regular reports on this website, as well as at RMT branch meetings, Regional Council meetings and around the workplaces.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow has delivered a New Years message for RMT members. In the message Crow discusses the economy, the ConDem Government, how it affects us as workers and our families, and what the RMT aims to do to defend workers and jobs in 2011.
From the International Transport Workers' Federation
Dear friends
Dismissal workers by the Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Investment Development and Operation Inc (ISG), Turkey
The ITF has been informed that ISG has dismissed 160 workers without following all the procedures required by Turkish law. Hava-Is has also pointed out that the dismissals occurred just a few days after the ruling by the Court of Appeal confirming the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s decision that ISG should be treated under the ‘air transport’ branch of activity for the purposes of the trade union establishment procedure. The timing of the dismissals suggests that they may have been a reaction to the court ruling, which is favourable to Hava-Is. Therefore appears to be no economic reason to justify the dismissals of the 160 workers last week.
Nominations are open for the following Regional Council officer positions:
In addition, nominations are open for:
Please note that:
Click on the attachment to download the December edition of Monthly News.
In this edition:
VICTIMISED FOR BEING A GOOD REP? - Green Park rep, Peter Hartshorn, is the latest activist to face a company stitch-up;
FOURTH STRIKE IS STRONGLY SUPPORTED - area roundup.
From Steve Hedley, RMT Regional Organiser ...
London Underground's Director of Employee Relations has sent out a circular stating that job cuts will be implemented on 6 February and giving the impression that RMT has agreed to this. I would like to clarify that your union has most definitely NOT agreed to this. We are NOT accepting job cuts, because we know the devastating effect the de-staffing of stations will have on our members in all grades and on the travelling public, and because we know that if we back down on this wave of job cuts there will be more to follow.
As a public body, London Underground has to carry out an assessment of the impact of any new policy on various equality issues. The attached file is LU's Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) for its current OSP (policy of cutting 800 mainly-stations jobs). Below is the response to this document that I have written on behalf of RMT. You will see from this that LU's EQIA falls woefully short, and ignores key equality issues.
Attendance: Vaughan Thomas, Adrian Finney, John Reid, Pat O'Brien, Olly New, Dave Rayfield, Janine Booth
COUNCIL OF EXECUTIVES REPORT
Olly reported on:
TfL have accepted Wonga.com as sponsors of free travel on New Year's Eve.
Wonga is a 'pay day loan' company with a typical APR of 2689%. If you were to borrow a fiver from them for one day - enough to cover a single journey on the tube, you'd owe them £10.60.
For many Londoner's, these loans may seem to be the only way to access funds, more so as decent jobs are cut and employee rights eroded following the ConDem goverments and bosses attacks on working class people - as can be seen at LU where 800 positions will be cut.