RMT Cleaners' Grade Meeting
30/01/2009 18:00
WEA Offices, 70 Clifton Street, EC2A 4HB (5 mins walk from Old Street station)
Speaker: Elane Heffernan, Immigration Rights Campaigner
If you have been involved in solidarity actions with cleaners, or would like to be in future, come along to this meeting to discuss next steps for the campaign. Hear how the cleaners will go about continuing to organise and plan next steps for solidarity action. Ideas floated so far include occupations or direct action targeting TfL, Metronet, ISS, and GBM, better communications with cleaners about what to do about immigration checks, a postcard or email campaign, a survey of cleaners on the underground and more.
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Latest headlines from rmt.org.uk
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.
S Stock tube drivers on Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan and Circle lines to be balloted for action over attack on working conditions
