Rail, Maritime and Tranposrt Union (RMT); Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA)
Protest on Wedesday April 4th at 9.30am at City Hall, The Queen's Walk, More London SE1 2AA. Nearest station: London Bridge.
Note to RMT: It's great that loads of leaflets have gone out across the job, but it would...
Could someone please explain to me how fining Network Rail four million quid for the Paddington crash does anything to prevent such corporate murder happening again - or represents any kind of justice for the victims?
NR - Railtrack's successor organisation - was prosecuted for a series of health &...
RMT members are now voting for our Executive representative. The choice is beteen Olly New and Brian Munro.
When the two candidates went round the branches asking for nominations, Brian generally came across better, with more passion, more focus on rank-and-file workers, and more 'fighting talk'...
If you think it's been a bit quiet here on JBlog for the last few days, it's not just because of jetlag following my conference binge of the last few weeks.
It's also because my blogging attentions have been preoccupied elsewhere, namely at the Rail4John blog. Check it out for news, reports...
By THE No One Is Illegal campaign For the first time an alliance of trade union General Secretaries have come together in support of a refugee in detention and under threat of deportation. The refugee is Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor. The General Secretaries are: Paul Mackney of UCU (the University and Colleges Union), Mark Serwotka of the PCS (Public and Commercial Service Union), Jeremy Dear of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists), Bob Crow of the RMT (Rail, Maritime and Transport), Tony Woodley of the TGWU (Transport and General Workers). They have all written to the Minister responsible...
By a Central Trains driver RMT rail union reps on Central Trains decided in the first week of March to “suspend” industrial action by guards over the company's new computerised rostering system, Crewplan. Last week a deal was reached at ACAS under which Central Trains undertook to look into local problems under Crewplan, depot by depot. Union reps on the Company Council now have three weeks to visit depots and collate grievances, and then there will be negotiations on them through a joint working party consisting of reps and managers.. This cannot be considered a victory, since Central Trains...
by a tube worker The RMT’s National Executive has decided to accept London Underground’s pay offer and not go ahead with strike action. But deal is well short of what we wanted and what staff deserve. After a 76% vote for strike action, the RMT's London Transport Regional Council discussed the situation on 22 February. At that meeting the majority of reps said that members in their area did not want to strike (even though they had just voted to), because: • the other two unions (TSSA and ASLEF) would work during the strike, reducing its effectiveness; • they were upset about members of other...
By Peter Burton RMT signallers working for Network Rail in Scotland were due to hold two 48-hour strikes this month over the company's continued failure to implement a 35-hour week agreement signed last summer. The union looks like it has now come to an agreement with the company, and the strikes have been called off. A previous 48 hour strike ended on Monday 12 March. If the deal is, as looks probable, a victory, the determination of the union, will have paid off. The first RMT strike was solid and provoked stormy arguments in the Scottish Parliament between the Nationalists and Labour First...
Into the second day for only the second time (RMT's women's conference was a one-day affair until year), the Executive reported on progress with last year's resolutions. One had been ruled out of order in a heavy-handed manner, others have been "progressed" or "linked to other files" or what have...
RMT's national women's conference took place on Friday and Saturday last week (2nd and 3rd March), in Doncaster. RMT members can watch the whole thing by webcast by logging on to the members' section. There were 25 delegates - that's about average, but less than there could potentially be due to...
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