Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender

The TUC LGBT Conference for 2012 will be held from the 5th to 6th of July 2012.

You can read about 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights' on the TUC website here.

More details will be added as we receive them.

National LGBT Members’ Advisory Committee meetings

6 February
2 July
8 October

All will be held at Unity House, commencing at 13.00 hours.

More details will be added as we receive them.

National LGBT Members’ Advisory Committee meetings

6 February
2 July
8 October

All will be held at Unity House, commencing at 13.00 hours.

More details will be added as we receive them.

National LGBT Members’ Advisory Committee meetings

6 February
2 July
8 October

All will be held at Unity House, commencing at 13.00 hours.

More details will be added as we receive them.

National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Members’ Conference

Date – 18th May 2012 (commencing 09.30)
Venue – Jury’s Inn, Southampton

More details will be added as we receive them.

Resolution from LGBT Advisory Committee:

No to hate crime campaign 17-24-30.org are a non-profit making organisation that have been running vigils in Trafalgar Square in October for the last two years. They are currently going through the process to achieve charitable trust status.

This Advisory Committee notes the importance of a collective stand against all forms of hate crime and the hard work done by 17-24-30.org to date.

This Advisory Committee resolves to publicise the 17-24-30.org and the affiliation form.”

RMT Council of Executives decision:

An annual 'Vigil Against Hate Crime' is due to take place on Friday 28th October, 7.30pm-9pm in Trafalgar Square.

A 2-minute silence to remember all victims of hate crime will be observed at 8pm across the UK.

No To Hate Crime said “We believe that it is important to actively remember the victims of hate crime, to show our support to those who have had their lives changed forever by acts of hate. To state clearly that hate crime is not acceptable in our communities and that we need to work together to tackle this problem.”

The following resolution submitted by TFL No1 Branch was carried unanimously at the October 27th meeting of the Regional Council.

No to hate crime campaign 17-24-30.org are a non-profit making organisation that have been running vigils in Trafalgar square in October for the last two years. They are currently going through the process to achieve charitable trust status.

This region notes the importance of a collective stand against all forms of hate crime and the hard work done by 17-24-30.org to date.

This region resolves publicise the 17-24-30.org and the affiliation form.

This annual festival in Liverpool may be of interest to members

Homotopia

Cruising for Art

1-30 November 2011

Welcome to our 8th festival happening across Liverpool throughout November. This year's festival theme is 'Cruising For Art' and we are thrilled that artist Sadie Lee's iconic painting 'Anderrida Shurville' is the 2011 festival campaign which also forms part of a new exhibition 'Pin Ups'.

A profile of the RMT National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Members' Advisory Committee.

RMT are organising a group to attend Sunderland's first gay pride event. Sunderland pride takes place on the 25th of September and the RMT's North East Regional Council are keen for more people to get involved.

Sunderland Pride is expected to attract 3000 people, who will march from the Civic Centre through the town from noon.

RMT Council of Executives decision on how to implement decision no.2 here:

That the General Secretary is instructed to implement the decision by initially liaising on this at the next LGBT Advisory Committee.

Further the General Secretary is instructed to write to Brendan Barber inviting the TUC's policy officer for LGBT rights, Peter Purton, to attend the next LGBT Advisory Committee meeting.

We note that the LGBT History Month is in February each year.

RMT General Grades Committee decision:

We note the report on the equality strand of the review of London Underground’s OSP (job cuts). We endorse the detailed critique of the job cuts’ impact on equalities, which can be found on file. This critique highlights that London Underground:

• calculates station staffing levels without considering the needs of equality groups
• uses methods for collecting information, categorising passenger journeys and assessing data which are deeply flawed and fail to account for equality issues
  

At this years RMT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender conference, Executive member for London Transport Region Janine Booth brought to members attentions the realities of LGBT rights internationally and the equalities that British LGBT workers and people still lack.

Internationally full legal equality for homosexuals only exists in 8 countries in the world. That is that they have equal rights including an equal marriage something that still eludes us in the UK. In 80 countries homosexuality is still illegal. Of these seven countries still have the death penalty. Only recently Uganda was attempting to criminalize all homosexual acts - punishment being a death sentence.

The following resolutions were passed by the recent RMT lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender conference. The first two will go forward to the union's Annual General Meeting. The other two will be discussed by the union's Council of Executives:

1. Membership Form – Disclosure Option of Sexual Orientation
2. LGBT History
3. Homophobia at Work
4. Production of DVD

The 2011 RMT LGBT Conference was held in Plymouth following a successful Young Member’s Conference a few months previously. There was a good turn out of delegates which made for an enjoyable social event the evening before the conference - and the local gay scene was very welcoming. One local gay pub held a quiz. The winning team consisted of four of our very own LGBT conference delegates who kindly donated the £20 prize to St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth.

Report to RMT stations representatives from Janine Booth

Summary:

• London Underground does not consider the needs of equalities groups when calculating its station staffing levels.
• LU's methods for collecting information, categorising passenger journeys and assessing data are deeply flawed and fail to account for equality issues.
• LU did not carry out an adequate Equality Impact Assessment before going ahead with the OSP, despite being obliged by law to do so. The revisions it has made to the EqIA since then are minor and wholly inadequate.