Events
More information here.
Coaches will take protesters from London to Codnor, Derbyshire. RMT's London Transport Regional Council will fund members to travel to the protest on coaches organised by other bodies eg. Trades Councils.
Barnet TUC has booked a 33 seat coach, which is scheduled to pick up in Finchley Central then Edgware, before travelling to Codnor to reach there at 11am. They expect to leave Codnor at about 4pm.
Venue: Upstairs bar, Old Star pub, opposite St. James' Park tube station.
Poster attached.
Neasden Branch Meets
Wednesday 19th August, 1600 Hours, The Torch Pub (Function Room), Wembley Park
Come along and discuss your issues in your workplace.
For more information Contact Les Bruty
A conference to discuss the issue of slavery, and of reparations to those countries exploited by the slave traders.
Venue: Board Room, Unity House (RMT head office), 39 Chalton Street, London NW1
Invitation and details in attached document.
Venue: the Bulstrode pub, Lampton Road, Hounslow, which is situated next to Hounslow Central station (Piccadilly line).
A regular monthly meeting for RMT reps and activists in London Underground train grades to discuss workplace issues and union organisation.
Venue: Unity House (RMT head office), 39 Chalton Street, London NW1
Somers Town Community Centre Ossulston Street NW1
A team sponsored by Vestas is playing at Wembley. Campaigners will be taking this opportunity to voice our objections to the company closing Britain's only wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight, at the cost of 600+ jobs.
Meet at Wembley Park tube at 11am.
More details from our Young Members' Officer, Becky Crocker.
Venue: Church Green, Burston, near Diss, Norfolk
Bob Crow writes ...
I would like to encourage all activists to attend this year’s commemoration of the Burston Strike School. The RMT wishes to have as large a presence as possible at this important event in the trade union calendar.
We will commemorate the longest strike in history, and celebrate the people who continue to fight for trade union rights, working class education, democracy in the countryside, and international solidarity.
Venue: Conway Hall, Red Lion Square (Holborn tube)
Speakers include:
- John McDonnell MP (Labour, Hayes and Harlington),
- Bob Crow (RMT General Secretary)
- Tony Juniper (ex Director, Friends of the Earth, Green Party candidate)
- Ian Terry (worker from the Vestas wind turbine factory)
- Phil Thornhill (Campaign against Climate Change)
Don't miss this important meeting on the UK's future direction in the era of Climate Emergency - are we moving full steam ahead towards Green Jobs and the Green Energy Revolution at a speed that we can and should ?
Venue: Unity House (RMT head office)
Demonstration against harrassment and bullying of RMT members at London United bus company. Picket will be outside Fulwell Bus Garage, Wellington Road, Twickenham, TW2 5NX (map here). Please make every effort to attend and support our bus members.
Venue: Exmouth Arms, Star Cross Street, near Euston
Pensions are a very important issue to workers - they ensure a comfortable and dignified retirement - and yet seem both complicated and continually under threat.
In this workshop, one of our rank-and-file RMT pensions reps will explain - and answer questions about - issues including:
- RMT representation on the bodies that oversee your pension
- ill-health pensions
- medical termination
Venue: ex-Services Club, Harvey Road, Leytonstone - map here.
Pensions are a very important issue to workers - they ensure a comfortable and dignified retirement - and yet seem both complicated and continually under threat.
In this workshop, one of our rank-and-file RMT pensions reps will explain - and answer questions about - issues including:
- RMT representation on the bodies that oversee your pension
- ill-health pensions
- medical termination
The organisers write ...
The Harrow Times website is reporting that "The event [the protest against the mosque] is being advertised through social networking website Facebook where 206 people say they will go, 560 say they might go and 1,120 are yet to reply." It has been taken off the English Defence League and British Defence League websites, but some of these facebook groups are sponsored by them and by similar groups. One belongs to a woman who asks people to contact her if they want to take part and advertises herself as a "fan" of Nick Griffin, the BNP and Enoch Powell. The EDL is the group that rampaged through Luton, where they were not opposed, smashing the windows of Asian owned shops and shouting abuse at Muslims. We cannot allow them to march unopposed through Harrow. If they get away with doing that, they will be back for more.
Venue: Unity House.
Sponsored by Camden 3 branch. Leaflet attached.
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