RMT members: vote yes to renew mandate on jobs, pensions, agreements
RMT has begun re-balloting directly-employed LUL members to renew the industrial action mandate in the "Jobs, Pensions, and Agreements" dispute.
RMT has begun re-balloting directly-employed LUL members to renew the industrial action mandate in the "Jobs, Pensions, and Agreements" dispute.
An RMT activist writes...
I read the latest London Underground Employee Bulletin, about talks aimed at resolving Aslef's dispute and proposed strikes, with interest. It had a slightly different tone to other bulletins on industrial action that I’ve read when it was my own union, RMT, who had named...
The latest edition of our bulletin is now online.
Click here to download the PDF.
This edition reflects on discussion at our recent meeting about the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike, and argues for a real fightback against LUL's plans for attacks on drivers' conditions. Plus local and...
Research, published in March 2024 and led by Imperial College London, has found that London Underground staff who work in areas with higher concentrations of PM (particular matter) 2.5 tended to report more instances of sickness absence.
PM 2.5 is matter that is less than 2.5 micrometres in...
Background:
Aslef has called strikes of LUL drivers on 8 April and 4 May. The strikes are in protest at LUL’s refusal to drop plans to radically reform drivers’ terms and...
After last year's long wait for the westbound points to be replaced and consistent failures, which took all Heathrow services down the local, the eastbound points have been feeling left out, and now every service from Heathrow is pushed down the local.
But the points that failed were brand new...
📢 A Tubeworker and Off The Rails public (Zoom) meeting
Thursday 21 March
15:00-17:00
In 1984-5, a strike by mine workers rocked the foundations of the British capitalist state. The strike was a counter-offensive against the Thatcher government’s class-war policy which aimed to smash the labour movement.
RMT members on London Overground (Arriva Rail London) have called off strikes planed for 4-5 March and accepted a revised pay offer from the employer.
RMT members on London Overground (Arriva Rail London) have called off strikes planed for 4-5 March and accepted a revised pay offer from the employer.
We've reported previously on LUL's plans to cut jobs in Fleet, by closing call points, leading to a shortfall in 27 jobs.
But it seems their plans may go further. According to research conducted by RMT reps, it looks like 20% of substantive positions in fleet depots are being held vacant.
Why...
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