The RMT has been advised that Jenny Jones AM pressed Boris Johnson on Wednesday at Mayor’s Question Time that TfL should meet with Tubelines and RMT on the London Living Wage.
He reportedly responded that there were 50 cleaners who were not in receipt of the London Living Wage but that has now been resolved satisfactorily.
We have been negotiating with LUL on the new New Ticket Office Procedures Handbooks for over a year now and they have been introduced without due consideration to our comments and concerns. We have real fears that the original TOPH is being watered down to make it easier to reduce ticket office hours, close ticket offices and get rid of SAMF and SS jobs.
The latest membership figures for RMT in the London Transport region show that workers are joining the union at the rate of over 60 per week.
We had 12,950 members in the Region on 30 April 2009, increasing to 13,146 by 31 May and 13,306 by 18 June.
The shocking figures below show Transport for London (TfL) and London Underground Ltd (LUL)'s total spend fighting employee Employment Tribunal claims from August 2004 to the end of 2008 (not including cost of staff and management time and TfL/LUL operational resources).
These illustrate two things:
The truth of the success of the 48 hour strike last week is starting to get through. Tonight’s Standard, the paper at the forefront of hostility to RMT, reports that:
“There was widespread disruption across the capital. Although London Underground was able to operate some trains, on most lines this was often limited to shuttle services.”
RoadTransport.com reported that:
Talks will reconvene at ACAS on Friday afternoon.
This will mainly consist of exchanging of documents, and will therefore may not result in immediate concrete progress. Further talks will take place next week.
RMT wants to see progress in talks and would prefer to see an agreement reached that avoids the need for further strikes. However, the union will call more action should management refuse to address our members' concerns about jobs, pay and justice.
SOLIDARITY!
RMT, ASLEF, TSSA members defy the bosses
Last Wednesday and Thursday
RMT members caused two days of hell in London. The BBC and the newspapers described the two days of strike action as “chaos”. Only London Underground and Boris Johnson tried to claim this was “service as usual”. But they are liars.
Dear Colleague,
Following a barrage of relentless media attacks on RMT last week, much of which was based on distortions and downright lies, there are signs that our message is starting to get through.
In tonight’s Standard, the paper at the forefront of hostility to RMT, their columnist Simon Jenkins has written a piece titled “Blame Greedy Bosses For The Great Tube Mess”. While we would dispute much of Jenkins’ analysis, he has picked up on at least some of the messages that RMT has been pumping out.
On senior tube bosses pay:
RMT tube workers will be taking a protest to Mayor Boris Johnson’s question time this Wednesday – 17th June – over his broken promises on the London Living Wage for some tube cleaners and over the docking of pay for staff who could not get into work on the snow day in February.
A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL SECRETARY
Dear Colleague,
Here are some useful facts. Below is the actual number of trains run (bold) on all lines during the strike against the total each line would normally run.
On a normal day 522 trains are run across the combine. Taken as a percentage, and at mid peak times (0900 and 1800) the best 'service' they ran amounted to 28% on Thursday (0900). However, take away the Northern and Jubilee Lines the best 'service' they could run across the combine was 17% for Wednesday and 19% for Thursday.