RMT to Campaign for International LGBT Rights
Submitted by Janine on 5 September, 2012 - 16:00
In response the the resolution from RMT AGM (submitted by RMT LGBT Conference) - which you can read here, the Council of Executives has made the following decision:
That we note and fully support this AGM Resolution. The General Secretary is instructed to implement this Resolution and further place an item on the LGBT Advisory Committee to advise us on what program of events we could mobilise on. We refer to the ETF/ITF Subcommittee this policy so we can take up specific items at these bodies. Finally the General Secretary is to ask the LGBT Advisory Committee for a Volunteer to write an article for the RMT News.
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.
