Council of Executives Report to LTRC Executive, 13 September
Submitted by Janine on 13 September, 2011 - 18:00
- PAY
- Alstom – referendum closes 29 September
- LU – offer rejected; Unite referendum rejected last LU offer; meeting with the other unions this week; further discussion at GGC after Thursday’s meeting
- VICTIMISATIONS
- Jayesh Patel, Tunde Umanah, James Masango – see decisions
- ORGANISING
- Track contract workers’ charter – being laid out this week
- Reduced-rate subs – Initial cleaners, Sodexho canteens
- LU UNIFORM
- letter from LU appears to suggest withdrawal of previous pledge to restore cleaning vouchers, and that RMT has three reps on the Unform Consultative Committee
- COMMAND AND CONTROL REVIEW
- still collecting information and attempting to organise reps’ meeting
- to be discussed at functional councils this month
- YOUNG MEMBERS’ ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- nomination forms sent out to branches by email
- deadline 23 September
- LU / POLICE ESCORT FOR EDL
- safety reps gathering information and reports
- RO requested meeting with LU
- not discussed by GGC
- LU HARASSMENT AND BULLYING REPS – please nominate
- OLYMPICS
- LU: ASLEF agreed deal to alter Framework
- DLR: negotiations to start
- more co-ordination between grades/companies
- RMT/TSSA merger – next meeting this week
- LU STATIONS – still awaiting ‘know your rights’ guide
- LABOURSTART CONFERENCE
- ‘From social networks to social revolution’, November 18-20
- POLITICAL ISSUES
- added members of Parliamentary group
- supporting Andrew Dismore (Labour) for GLA
- Regional Council resolution on PTUC-BDS – noted union policy
- People’s Pledge campaign
- 75th anniversary of Cable Street
- EQUALITIES
- maximum delegation to TUC Black Workers Conference
- Haiti
- women: sexism survey; domestic violence; women and cuts
- LGBT history
- RMT disability conference
- Women's and Black & Ethnic Minority Advisory Committees this month
- ISSUES AT GGC TOMORROW
- Route locking, Jubilee line
- Signal framework agreement
- Tier 2 reps competence assessments, LU
- Finsbury Park community wardens
- Track contractors’ charter
- Proposed transfer activities to TfL
Janine Booth, 13/9/11
Latest headlines from rmt.org.uk
TUBE UNION RMT today slammed plans set out by London Tories to allow commercial sponsorship of tube stations as 'a blueprint to destroy London's transport heritage in the name of private profit.'
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that electricians and engineers working for contractors Mitie on the TFL contract are to take strike action and action short of a strike in a dispute over redundancies and unilateral changes to working conditions.
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.
