Council of Executives Report to Regional Council, February 2011
Submitted by Janine on 23 February, 2011 - 23:05
- Taxis - 15-year age limit (see decision)
- LU job cuts - confidential reporting line luljobcuts@rmt.org.uk; need to update membership information following 6 February moves; appeals against displacements; Enhanced AFM Functionality; reviews ongoing; action short of strikes; recommend members' meeting w/c 14 March
- LU pay - claim submitted
- 29 April public holiday - correspondence with LU
- 26 March demonstration - please mobilise
- DLR injunction appeal - hearing has been held, decision expected around 8 March
- anti-union laws - plan for seminar on campaigning for repeal
- DLR dispute - progress in talks?
- Victoria Line sensitive edge ballot - verbal report to be given at LTRC meeting
- victimisations - strikes for Eamonn & Arwyn called for 21 February, then suspended for escalation of dispute to ballot of all drivers; full verbal explanation of decision to be given at LTRC meeting; campaigning needed, materials available; MPs support; Employment Tribunal hearings
- Power Control Room / TACs - referenda rejected offer; awaiting revised offer from LU; liaising with other unions
- LGBT Advisory Committee - Pride events; conference
- legal appeal - Pat Houlihan - referred to Legal Sub-Committee, hope to get legal representation
- Egypt - have continued to raise at Executive, pressing for support for new independent union federation; press release opposing ban on strikes and workers' meetings
- LU Company Council - meets 24/2; issues include machinery, stations framework agreement; Regional Organiser to give report
- forthcoming Statutory Executive Meeting ('stats week') - issues coming up include pamphlet on the cuts; AV referendum; legal appeals
- LT Region AGM delegates - Adrian Rowe, Jim McDaid, Becky Crocker, Glen Brown, Neil Hodgson, Michael Keown, Mac McKenna, Vaughan Thomas, Tony Rowntree, Dean O'Hanlon, Jackie Darby
Janine Booth 24/2/11
Latest headlines from rmt.org.uk
TUBE UNION RMT warned today London Assembly members risk unleashing the biggest wave of industrial action on London Underground in 30 years after City Hall politicians lined up this morning to attack basic tube workers' rights including pensions and passes.
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that driver members at a range of depots serving the Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan and Circle Lines will be taking industrial action in a dispute arising from the introduction of the new S Stock fleet.
In separate ballots conducted over the past two weeks, tube drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and working conditions, pay and threatened redundancies.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said:
'This is another blast of bad news to hit Jubilee Line users after the repeated problems with the fleet and the automated operating system.
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that electricians and engineers working for contractors Mitie on the TFL contract are to be balloted for strike action and action short of a strike in a dispute over redundancies and unilateral changes to working conditions.
