Council of Executives Member's Report to Regional Council, September 2011
Submitted by Janine on 30 September, 2011 - 15:00
- PAY
- Alstom – referendum rejected 32-17
- LU – offer rejected; talks at ACAS tomorrow
- EDF Powerlink – improved offer – Regional Organiser to report
- CTS – offer improved to 3.5%
- Initial cleaners – pay uprated in line with London Living Wage – organising campaign underway
- VICTIMISATIONS
- Issa Kanu reinstated
- Jayesh Patel – Directors Review offered return to driver after 12 months – meeting sought
- James Masango – Bob Crow meeting Mike Brown tomorrow; publicity campaign and ballot preparations to commence immediately if James not reinstated; Remedy Hearing Monday; official complaint lodged with ORR re endangering public safety
- Northfields depot – ballot cancelled as Tube Lines drop all charges against our member
- LONDON UNDERGROUND ‘OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAMME’ (OSN 101)
- Ballot matrix being prepared
- ORGANISING
- Track contract workers’ charter – endorsed by GGC; in production
- Reduced-rate subs – Initial cleaners, Sodexho canteens
- LONDON OVERGROUND
- John Laing cleaners on London Overground contract – recognition achieved
- London Overground uniform issues
- LU UNIFORM
- letter from LU appears to suggest withdrawal of previous pledge to restore cleaning vouchers, and that RMT has three reps on the Uniform 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
- LT Region members: David Gray, Debbie French, Jayesh Patel, Emma Linacre
- LU / POLICE ESCORT FOR EDL
- safety reps gathering information and reports
- RO requested meeting with LU
- not discussed by GGC – to be discussed by Council of Executives next month
- LU HARASSMENT AND BULLYING REPS – please nominate
- RMT/TSSA MERGER
- statements so far on website
- next round of meetings starts 4 October
- OLYMPICS
- LU trains: ASLEF agreed deal to alter Framework; RMT not agreed; LU offered meeting to discuss
- LU service control: management refused parity with drivers
- Reports sought from reps in other functions
- DLR: negotiations to start
- more co-ordination between grades/companies
- LU STATIONS
- ‘know your rights’ guide now available
- still awaiting implementation of decision on ‘action short’
- Wembley Central stations – see decision
- national ‘SOS: Staff Our Stations’ campaign to be launched
- TRANSFER: LUL TO TfL
- legal advice: all (contractual and non-contractual) working arrangements and benefits transfer with staff’
- 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
- enlarged delegation to TUC Black Workers Conference
- anti-slavery event
- Haiti (see decision)
- women: issues - sexism survey; domestic violence; women and cuts; equal pay
- women’s training events
- LGBT history
- RMT disabled members’ conference, 8 November
- age discrimination: LU abiding by new legislation
- OTHER ISSUES (see decisions)
- Signal framework agreement
- Tier 2 reps competence assessments, LU
- Finsbury Park community wardens
- alleged failure to attend meetings
- representation of fleet grades
- transfer: Carillion to TfL
- taxis – legal advice sought on defamation and on worker/employer status of cabbies/TfL
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.
