Campaigning for higher health and safety standards at work, and opposing the employers' shortcuts
On Saturday night the predicted heavy snow brought much of the tube to a halt. Efforts were made to keep the service running and get passengers safely home by staff working that evening. However was the inevitable - trains being stuck in snow between stations - ignored until it was too late?
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RMT position regarding station staff sweeping and shovelling platforms clear of snow and Ice in adverse weather conditions.
It is not station staff’s job to undertake this duty.
From General Secretary Bob Crow
The TUC is dedicating this year’s Workers’ Memorial Day, Saturday 28th April, to a Day of Action to defend Health and Safety. They are producing a series of bulletins that will assist reps and activists to organise for the day with important discussion topics. The first two ‘Defending Regulation’ and ‘The Need for Enforcement’ are available online now. (see below)
RMT National Health & Safety Conference will be held in Doncaster on the 29th of February.
More details as we get them.
Everything management do now is preparation to take us on, all of us, each grade, after the Olympics. Make no mistake, no stone will be left unturned as LUL aim to transform the job root and branch. As a previous leaked document revealed, they're making no bones about using the economic crisis to launch the attack.
This political report will explain the attacks, grade by grade, over five special issues, each fortnight.
RMT General Grades Committee decision:
That we note the report from our Regional Organiser on his discussions with London Underground management prior to the result of our ballot for industrial action.
We instruct the General Secretary to obtain a report on the progress of this dispute.
London Transport Regional Council and branches with London Underground members to be advised.
LONDON UNDERGROUND intends to halve the frequency of maintenance on trains on the Metropolitan Line despite a manufacturer’s report which reveals that the safety implications of doing so have not been considered, the Tube’s biggest union reveals today.
Please Find Attached 'The Neasden Flyer' giving instructions of the recent work to rule
Inside this issue
Reversing a train blind No!
Platform Category A or B?
Passengers over shunt signals No!
Sensitive Edge Visual Overide No!
RMT TUBE drivers are to refuse to follow what the union considers to be dangerous new instructions from London Underground after voting by a margin of four to one for industrial action over train safety.
from RMT General Secretary Bob Crow
I write to advise you that following the magnificent 80% vote in favour of action, the General Grades Committee has decided to call the below action short of a strike in the above dispute.