More messages of support for our fight against job cuts

Submitted by Admin on 29 November, 2010 - 15:50

I support the strike - as a woman who often travels alone on tubes I really value having hard working and helpful tube staff on hand to ask for assistance.
Keep on fighting the cuts!
Katy Arnold

I totally support what ever action you have to take to defend your members and our tube/rail services.
Paul Neale, Fire Brigades Union

Good luck in your dispute. It's a shame more workers didn't get organised, join unions and take on these wretched bosses - they make me sick, think they can walk all over people and get away with it.

Big Society? Big Cuts, Big Protest!

Submitted by Admin on 28 November, 2010 - 18:05

By James Wong McSweeney, RMT Regional Young Members' Officer:

On Wednesday 15th December at 10am a delegation from the RMT will present hundreds of signed postcards from passengers across London to the Mayor, Boris Johnson, calling for an end to the threatened jobs massacre. As part of this a protest has been called to raise awareness of what the reality of the jobs massacre will be and to call for the re-instatement of the three victimised reps: Arwyn Thomas; Eamonn Lynch; and Peter Hartshorn.

December 2010 Newsletter

Submitted by Joffe on 28 November, 2010 - 09:10

The latest Branch newsletter features articles on the Tribunal Judge's ruling on Eamonn Lynch's sacking, the jobs and safety strike and LUL's Rainbow procedure.

Click on the attachment to download it.

Minutes: Regional Council meeting, 25 November 2010

Submitted by Admin on 27 November, 2010 - 21:40

ATTENDANCE

  • Bakerloo –
  • Camden No.3 – Becky Crocker, Pat O'Brien, John Reid
  • Central Line West – Vaughan Thomas
  • DLR –
  • East Ham – Unjum Mirza, Gary Lazell, James Wong-McSweeney
  • Finsbury Park – John Kelly, Glenroy Watson, Dave Rayfield, John Noonan
  • Hammersmith & City – Mac McKenna, Josie Toussaint-Pinnock, Shaun McKenzie
  • Jubilee South & East London Line –
  • London Taxis –
  • LU Engineering – Lewis Peacock, Andy Littlechild, Jackie Darby, Simon Cottington
  • LU Fleet – Kieran Crowe
  • Morden & Oval – Arwyn Thomas

Resolution: ACAS Talks

Submitted by Admin on 27 November, 2010 - 21:35

This resolution, submitted by LU Engineering branch, was carried unanimously by the November meeting of the Regional Council.

That this region fails to understand the logic of the talks at ACAS over the station job losses that have excluded our elected Regional Organiser and left the team at ACAS without an elected official to represent and negotiate for us all at these talks. We therefore call on this exclusion to be withdrawn and our Regional Organiser reinstated to these talks.

Resolution: Escalation of LU Job Cuts Dispute

Submitted by Admin on 27 November, 2010 - 21:01

This resolution, submitted (and amended) by Finsbury Park branch, was carried by the November meeting of the Regional Council:

This Region calls upon the union to urgently campaign for an escalation of the action in the dispute regarding jobs and safety on LUL as already agreed at regional level in order to win the dispute.

We recommend that one of the days for action should be Saturday 18th December.

Resolution: LU Jobs and Safety Dispute

Submitted by Admin on 27 November, 2010 - 20:54

This resolution, submitted by Bakerloo branch, proposed by East Ham and seconded by LU Engineering, was carried by the November meeting of the Regional Council.

The LTRC congratulates all RMT and TSSA members for their solidarity and determination to resist the attacks on our job from the tube bosses and the Tory Mayor. We also place on record our thanks and sincere appreciation to those non members who respected our picket lines.

Join our Picket Lines

Submitted by Admin on 27 November, 2010 - 19:38

RMT and TSSA will be picketing around 100 stations, depots and other workplaces - some on Sunday evening, most on Monday throughout the day, starting in the early morning. Please come along and support us. The current list of pickets is below.