on Thursday 6th of May @ 1400hrs the S. O. S. campaign will leaflet the public at Elephant & Castle station.
RMT will be appearing outside various stations over the coming weeks, giving out leaflets and collecting signatures. Keep checking back to this website for dates and details - and join us if you can!
As requested by RMT's campaign committee, I wrote the following letter to Labour Parliamentary candidates in and around London (or at least, the ones I could find email addresses for!):
As you may know, London Underground, under the leadership of Tory Mayor Boris Johnson, plans to cut 800 station staff jobs, and to severely cut ticket office opening hours.
RMT and London Underground's other trade unions strongly oppose this plan, as we believe it will: - endanger passengers - reduce customer service
Staff at eleven London colleges are likely to strike over funding cuts on Wednesday, May 5. Higher education has been hit with a series of funding cuts that now total close to £1bn, while further education has been told to make savings of £340m in the next academic year. You can read more about the dispute here.
I have sent the following message of support on behalf of RMT's London Transport Region ...
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Dear brothers and sisters
The next Stratford no.1 branch meeting will take place on Thursday 13th May 2010 from 5pm -7pm at the Leytonstone & District ex-Servicemen's Club, Harvey Road, Leytonstone, E11 3DB. It is approximately a two minute walk from Leytonstone Underground station.
On March 31st 2010, Abdul Omer Mohsin was sacked for being an effective union rep at London Sovereign. London Sovereign is owned alongside London United by the Transdev group.
Omer began working at London United in February 2003 and transferred to London Sovereign in July 2007. The wages at London Sovereign were about £4,000 a year less than those paid at London United. Omer made his colleagues aware of the huge gap in wages and began to organise a campaign for parity.
Come and join the May Day march on Saturday 1st May 2010. The march to Trafalgar Square will start at 12 noon from Clerkenwell Green.
A book re-launch of "May Day" a novel by John Somerfield, will take place at 11am at the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell.
In 1998, the recently-elected New Labour government announced a ‘public-private partnership’ for London Underground. Operations would remain in the public sector, but the infrastructure would transfer to private consortia on 30-year leases.
This resolution, submitted as an emergency resolution by Neasden branch and seconded by Camden 3 branch, was carried unanimiously by the April meeting of the Regional Council ...
This region notes that the plans for station staff cuts affect all grades.
This region notes that our ethos and history supports all grades in action together.
This region calls on the CofE to ballot every single grade within London Underground for the “operational strategic plan” Dispute
To read or download the April 2010 edition of Monthly News, click on the attachment below.
In this edition:
This year's Train Grades AGM will be held at Unity House on Thursday 29th April from 14:30 to 16:00
Please try and attend, we need as many Reps and Members there as possible to make it a good meeting, and also to get a good turn out for the election of Officers and a Chair and Secretary for this committee.
See you there
Will Reid Trains Functional Council Rep 2nd Floor , Room 19 70 Old Broad Street London EC2M 1QS Auto:49931 Landline02070279931 Mobile: 07889089064