When negotiations fail, RMT members take action
Today RMT began balloting four separate groups of members for industrial action in four separate localised trade disputes:
RMT has also today served notice on London Underground for a ballot of staff over pay and conditions with the ballot closing on Monday 21st December.
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Willesden Green Group Ballot for Strike Action
Defending Jobs & Agreements Train Operators Detraining instead of CSAs
Straford Market Depot Ballot for Strike Action
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This is an official RMT circular - IR/399/09 dated 13th of November 2009, from General Secretary Bob Crow.
RMT is currently in a number of dispute situations with various TfL employers that will necessitate ballots for industrial action. In addition to this there is of course the company wide dispute with LUL itself and I am carrying out the necessary checks for this ballot and hope to be in a position to report on progress next week.
Regretfully, this process has become even more complicated than before following a High Court ruling against us in respect of a recent ballot we conducted amongst our EDF Energy members.
Unite are to ballot their members at LU over the current pay offer. Unite have 600 members in LU, working in areas such as maintenance and safety. Unite members recently decided two to one that a ballot for industrial action was the way forward.
Unite say their ballot will coincide with the RMT’s ballot of its members on the pay issue. Unite anticipate that any resulting industrial action would be co-ordinated with the RMT.
This is a statement from General Secretary Bob Crow:
I am pleased to report that another dispute has now been resolved, that is the attempt by SERCO Docklands management to force Control Room staff from a popular 12 hour roster to an 8 hour one without any redress.
A very successful demonstration by busworkers took place today (Friday 2nd October 2009) outside London United's Hounslow Bus Garage. The protest was to highlight the bullying and harassment of RMT busworkers at London United. More protests are planned.
TUBE UNION RMT announced today that staff on London Underground’s Victoria Line will stage a 24 hour strike from 21.30 hours on Monday 5th October to 21.29 hours on Tuesday 6th October in a dispute over the imposition of new rosters that significantly increase the workload on staff.
By a majority of 3 to 1 on a high turnout, RMT drivers on the Victoria line have voted for strike action and action short of a strike against local management’s attempt to impose 5-rounder duties on the line. The unions had an agreement with the company that there would be no more than four rounders in any duty because of the hot and noisy conditions on the line and the detrimental effect on morale that these turns
RMT CLEANERS working on the Eurostar contract for the Carlisle Group at St Pancras International are rock solid this morning in their support for a 48 hour strike which started at 21.59 hours last night.
The cleaners - who are fighting a pay freeze, a threat of redundancies, the introduction of Orwellian finger-printing machines and the victimisation of a union rep – have mounted a noisy mass picket at St Pancras International this morning.