Rail unions

Rail, Maritime and Tranposrt Union (RMT); Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA)

Tubeworker: Pay and Attendance - time to fight

Probably the two biggest issues for Tube workers are pay and conditions, and the way the company treats us when we are sick. Both these issues have come to a head, and Tubeworker puts the case for a fight on both. Workplace reports include air conditioning, disciplinary procedures, and a call for solidarity with the looming strike on Network Rail. You can read and download it here .

Network Rail ballot: vote "yes"!

By a an RMT member The RMT has called a ballot for industrial action of its 7,000 members at Network Rail. These workers include signalling, maintenance and station staff. The ballot over the closure of the final salary pension scheme, pay, and travel facilities, will run from 27 April to 17 May. It raises the prospect of the first national rail stoppage in a decade. Signal staff will be the cutting edge in this dispute, and it is important to get the right strategy for this action from the start. During the last signalworkers' dispute the RMT did not ballot supervisory staff and they were...

Change This Sick System

For years, Tube workers have been deeply unhappy with an 'attendance' policy which punishes people for being ill. Now, the company has rewritten the policy. As RMT reps meet on Monday to look at and discuss the new draft, Tubeworker offers our views on what sort of policy we want, and what sort of campaign we want our union to run. You can read and download it here .

National dispute over rail pay?

By a RMT member Talks have broken down between the railworkers' Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and employers Network Rail over pay, pensions and travel facilities. The RMT executive will meet soon to discuss a national ballot of the union's 7,000 Network Rail members, who include signalling, maintenance and station staff. "The company has imposed a pension scheme for new entrants that is no better than a glorified savings plan subject to the whims of the market," said RMT general secretary Bob Crow. "Their pay offer of 3% is the lowest in the rail industry, and they have refused to...

Tubeworker 26 March: Solidarity Against War and Terror

In the aftermath of the killing of 200 railway passengers in Madrid, Tubeworker condemns the bombers. It also argues that the US-led military alliance can not defeat terrorist-fundamentalism: only working-class solidarity can do that. This issue tells readers the latest developments in our campaign for a better deal for reserve and pool staff. It also questions RMT's decision to call off the Metronet strike, and reports on workplace issues from the latest pay talks to improvements in privilege travel facilities. View PDF and download it here .

Tube strike called off as Metronet agree to abide by tribunal

Rail union RMT suspended strike action by Metronet maintenance and signal workers, scheduled for 12 March. RMT members had voted 5:1 for action in support of colleagues sacked despite the lack of evidence linking them to beer cans allegedly found in a mess room at Farringdon station. "After considering the undertaking by Metronet to abide by the outcome of an Employment Tribunal, the RMT executive has today suspended the strike action scheduled for tomorrow," RMT general secretary Bob Crow told the press. "We understand that the president of the Tribunals has undertaken to do everything within...

RMT branch affiliates to "centre-left" Welsh nationalists

According to a posting on the Scottish Socialist Party's email list, the RMT's Wrecsam branch has voted to affiliate to Cymru Ymlaen (Forward Wales). RMT general secretary Bob Crow attended the branch meeting. Reports on Cymru Ymlaen such as this one from The Socialist , 15/11/03 indicate that it eschews any class politics and instead defines itself as "centre-left" and Welsh nationalist. This reinforces the need for the upcoming RMT AGM to define positive working-class criteria for the union's future political activities.

RMT Jarvis strike ballot

RMT to ballot 3,000 Jarvis workers over transfer job security RMT press release: 19 March 2004 RAIL UNION RMT is to ballot nearly 3,000 Jarvis workers after the company failed to guarantee protection of employment rights to employees transferring to Network Rail or other contractors. The union had sought an assurance that there would be no compulsory redundancies as a result of Jarvis maintenance contracts being taken back in-house by Network Rail on April 1, or of renewals work being re-tendered. "We have a number of serious concerns over these transfers, but our number-one aim is to ensure...

Bristol Rail RMT calls for conference on working-class representation

This is the text of a resolution submitted by Bristol Rail branch RMT to the union's forthcoming AGM, calling for a conference to discuss political representation for workers. The branch had previously submitted the same resolution to the union's Special General Meeting last month, where - unfortunately - motions from branches were not voted on. NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR WORKING CLASS POLITICAL REPRESENTATION That this AGM regards the Labour Party under its current leadership as the party of privatisation and neo-liberalism, support for the imperialist wars of the extreme right Bush...

FBU to follow the RMT?

The leadership of the FBU are preparing to follow the RMT into conflict with the Labour Party leadership, by proposing to next month's FBU conference a shake-up of the union's political activity. This will include a reduction in donations to the Labour Party, and a move which would return FBU policy to the position of the 2001 conference - with the exception that this time, the leadership will be proposing it, rather than fighting it. The conference agenda contains motions calling for disaffiliation from Labour, and it is in the face of these calls that the EC has agreed to put a "middle...

This website uses cookies, you can find out more and set your preferences here.
By continuing to use this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.