Guidelines for Trade Union Representatives When Using Electronic Communications Facilities Provided by London Underground

Submitted by Admin on 4 March, 2010 - 19:50

RMT Regional Organiser Steve Hedley has sent the following letter to London Underground's Director of Employee Relations ...

The policy below has appeared on your website, I have to reiterate that it is the RMT’s position that all trade union and health and safety communication is legitimate under the ACAS code of practice therefore we are in dispute over your somewhat draconian interpretation of internet use and will seek both legal and industrial remedies if you choose to attempt to discipline anyone on this issue.

Yours sincerely

Steve Hedley Regional Organiser

Counter Demonstration against the English Defense League (EDL)

URGENT MESSAGE FROM UNITE AGAINST FASCISM ________________________________________ UNITE AGAINST FASCISM Emergency protest against the EDL in London this Friday Assemble 11am, Friday 5 March Houses of Parliament, London

For more information please call 020 7801 2782 or visit the UAF website

on www.uaf.org.uk

The English Defence League (EDL) will be marching in London on Friday 5 March in support of the far right Dutch MP Geert Wilders who is visiting the House of Lords to whip up hatred against Muslims.

Regional LGBT Officer

Submitted by Peter North on 1 March, 2010 - 20:55

I have been elected as the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Officer for the London Transport Region at the recent Regional Council Meeting.

Anybody who has suggestions of the sort of things we can be doing in the London Transport Region, or wants to be involved please contact me via email here or leave a comment below.

Free Liliany -Colombian Trade Union Activist

Come and Join JUSTICE FOR COLOMBIA (www.justiceforcolombia.org) Outside the Colombian Embassy (Knightsbridge Station) at 16.00 on Monday 8th March to mark international womens day and protest against the Continued Detention of Liliany Obando, a Human Rights activist who has done nothing bar protest against the on-going murder of trade-unionists in Colombia.

A group of Trade Union Leaders will be be joined by a group of MPs in handing in a letter to the Embassy calling for lilianys Freedom.

Minutes: Regional Council meeting, 25 February 2010

Submitted by Admin on 26 February, 2010 - 16:03

ATTENDANCE:

  • Bakerloo: Malcolm Taylor
  • Camden 3: John Reid, Pat O'Brien, Clara Osagiede
  • Central Line West: Stefan Melnyk, Vaughan Thomas (meeting chair)
  • DLR: Andy Izard
  • Finsbury Park: Dave Rayfield, Will Reid
  • Hammersmith & City: Mark Harding
  • Jubilee South & East London line:
  • London Taxis: Mike Tinnion, John Kennedy
  • LU Engineering: Lewis Peacock
  • LU Fleet: Linda Martin
  • Morden & Oval: Bob McMunn

Leaked Tube Staffing Plan Raises Alarm Over Safety

Submitted by Peter on 24 February, 2010 - 23:40

SOSTUBE UNION RMT today revealed leaked details of an internal London Underground management report titled “Minimum Staffing Levels” which the union is warning would lead to the loss of hundreds of station jobs, hacking back to the absolute bare bones staffing levels agreed in the aftermath of the Kings Cross fire in 1987. Even Victoria, the busiest station on the underground with 76 million passengers, could see its current twelve staff cut to just two during “degraded” operation.