Campaigning for higher health and safety standards at work, and opposing the employers' shortcuts
Joint Press Release from ASLEF, RMT, TSSA & UNITE
As railway workers, we cannot work at home. But we plead with the traveling public, if you can work from home, please do.
As I reported yesterday we met with the LUL Managing Director. This is an updated list of issues and demands that we made in the meeting. This morning I spoke to him again on the phone and emphasised the need to support the staff and contractors across the Underground.
Also attached as a Word document and a PDF.
Disabled transport workers are a significant and valuable part of the workforce that delivers transport to millions of passengers and freight consignments every day. Many of us are also particularly vulnerable during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Dear RMT members,
This afternoon we met the Managing Director and other directors of TfL to discuss the Covid 19 virus and its impact on our members of all companies working on the underground during the current crisis.
13/03/20 RMT joins other tube unions in demand for urgent top level meeting as coronavirus fears deepen TUBE UNION RMT today joined with other LU unions in a call for urgent talks at top level as members raise fears across the job about a lack of leadership and a sense of inertia at both national and regional level that is leaving union members feeling abandoned and without proper support and guidance as the coronavirus spreads.
- Please download the attached poster and display it in your station.
In a recent incident at Dagenham Heathway, a customer smashed the SCP window with a bike lock. This is one of many reports we have received of physical and verbal
assaults on staff directly relating to the oyster card
deposit being withdrawn.
What this means in simple terms is, people who have purchased an oyster card on or after the 23rd February can no longer get their fiver back as it is now a non-
refundable charge.
Tier 2 Health & Safety News is the newsletter for station staff. This edition focuses in Covid19.
TUBE UNION RMT has today written to the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, demanding urgent action over the coronavirus and called for the privatised cleaning regime on London Underground to be ended and brought in-house.
TRANSPORT UNION RMT has today written to employers across the industry setting out a list of core demands designed to protect the safety of both staff and the public as well as the rights and livelihoods of the transport workforce.
The union has also written to the UK Government, the Scottish and Welsh Governments and the Mayor of London, who are all responsible for overseeing transport services, asking that they support these demands.
The letter covers the following areas:
- please download the attached leaflet and display it in relevant depots.
Members on the Northern, Jubilee, Central and Victoria lines are currently receiving ballot papers relating to excessive track noise.
The ballot will be conducted on a line by line basis. This ballot has been forced upon us in response to the TU Act 2016 which exhausts ballot mandates after 6 months, meaning that the resounding yes vote mandate that was returned last year would expire in March.