Campaign and events leaflets

Important Meeting-Christopher Alder Campaign.

Christopher Alder, a former paratrooper, died in police custody in 1998.
Now, eleven years after his death, it has come to light that it was not Christopher Alder at all who was buried in the family grave but the body of an elderly woman named Grace Kamara who died of natural causes in 1999.
The mix up was only discovered when members of Grace’s family asked to see the body before it was buried.

Justice for James Masango and Jayesh Patel. Discuss the ASLEF/LU Olympics stitch up. Download the attached poster for noticeboards.

Click on the attachment to download poster for train depot noticeboards.

RMT General Secretary says:

"It is the abject failure of LU to recognise
that their policy of victimisation of union activists has been well and truly rumbled both in the employment tribunal and in their own depots, and it is that harassment and bullying that has left us with no choice but to name these dates for strike action.

The RMT Train Grades Committee has produced a new "Up Front" the newsletter for London Underground drivers. This edition has been amended to take account of RMT General Grades Committee decision. Click on the attachment to download it. Main stories follow:

Drivers vote to stop victimisations on the tube

What a result! Train drivers and Instructor operators on LU were asked “are you prepared to take strike action over the victimisation of Eamonn Lynch and Arwyn Thomas?” 64% of drivers responded with a resounding yes vote on a turnout of nearly 50%
This is a major achievement for the union and shows that drivers across the whole of the combine and in every depot are determined to stop the victimisation of our fellow drivers. Never before has the union escalated an individual case across the whole of the tube network.

Click on attachment to download a poster for notice boards.

All Train Operators and Instructor Operators have been balloted for strike action over LUL’s continuing victimisation of our representatives and activists.

You are invited to attend a member’s meeting on the date the all drivers ballot closes 27th April 2011 to discuss the result and the next course of action.

Wednesday 27th April 2011 at 4pm

YMCA Indian Student Hostel

41 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6AQ

RMT is leafleting the public throughout this week over the victimisation and discrimination of health and safety rep Eamonn Lynch

Bakerloo Line drivers are striking this Saturday, 15 January, because London Underground (LU) has unfairly and unlawfully sacked our workmate.

FIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
SATURDAY 22ND JANUARY 2011
11:30am – 4:00pm
South Camden Community School (By Euston Station)
Charrington Street, London NW1 1RG
All anti-cuts campaigns, trade union branches, trades councils and workplace organisations are invited to send delegates and visitors.

Organised by the National Shop Stewards' Network. Leaflet attached.

Venue: Twelve Pins pub, opposite Finsbury park station

• free buffet
• limited free bar
• 1800-late

Poster attached.

Neasden Branch has nominated Janine Booth for the London Transport Position on the Unions Council of Executives

There are many reasons why the Branch nominated Janine, Please find attached Posters to be displayed in your workplace.

RMT has hired a coach to lobby the TUC to hold a national demonstration against the vicious cuts of 25-40% which the government wishes to inflict upon the transport industry and right across the public sector.

The coach will leave Unity House (39 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD) on Sunday 12 September at 7.45am. There are 56 seats, which we hopefully will fill totally with RMT members. We will take people on a first-come-first-served basis.

On Monday morning, the re-opened and extended East London Line officially welcomed its first weekday passengers.

Friday 23rd of April 1pm (1300hrs) at Liverpool Street Station outside McDonald's

We will be gathering to leaflet the public with news about the planned jobs cull and invite them to sign the petition.

Please come along to show your support for the cause and make an impact!

A flyer to advertise the day is attached.

RMT London Transport Regional Council is holding a public meeting about London Underground job cuts on Wednesday the 31 March, 6 - 8pm, at Friends House, Euston Road - opposite Euston Station.

Across The Tracks has published a poster warning that the job cuts at LUL won't stop at 800.

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download, or view the poster by reading the full story

Speakers include Alex Gordon (RMT), Tony Kearns (CWU), Manuel Cortes (TSSA), Chris Baugh (PCS), Prof. Barbara Harriss-White, Phil Thornhill (CaCC), Jonathan Neale (Million Green Jobs Commission), John Stewart (HACAN), Graham Petersen (UCU), Larry Lohman (Cornerhouse), Ian Terry (former Vestas worker)

Admission £10 (£5 concessions) South Camden Community School, Charrington St, London NW1 1RG Phone: 079 585 35231 Email: climatetradeunion@googlemail.com campaign against climate change trade union group Third Trade Union Conference www.campaigncc.org cacctu.wordpress.com

Venue: Bloomsbury Baptist Church, near Tottenham Court Road Tube Station

LU Engineering has organised a seminar on 'Organising, Militancy and Revitalisation' Case study of the RMT - looking at the relationship between union militancy, effectiveness in delivering barginaing gains, membership growth and union revitalisation.

Speakers include Bob Crow (RMT General Secretary) and Alex Gordon (RMT National President), along with Professor Ralph Darlington of Salford University.

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download a leaflet advertising this event.

Finsbury Park branch will be inviting speakers from a range of progressive organisations and campaigns to speak to members every month forthwith as part of an effort to educate and inform members about wider political issues. The first speaker will be Paddy Hill from the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation who spent 16 years behind bars for a crime which the police and government knew he had no part in. Paddy will be speaking at the Twelve Pins public house at 6pm after the regular branch meeting.

A leaflet advertising this event can be downloaded by clicking on the attachment below.

Venue: Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, nearest station: Warren Street - map here.

• hear the industrial action ballot result
• plan for effective action
• hear details of London Underground’s assault on jobs
• ask questions
• join the discussion

Show your support for RMT’s fight for jobs, pay and justice!

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download a notice advertising this meeting. Please distribute this widely at work.

RMT presents Private Screening @ Bernie Grant Arts Centre Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green N15 4RX (Nearest Tube: Seven Sisters)

DUKE VIN & THE BIRTH OF SKA (FREE ADMISSION - Registration Essential)

Email: rmt30november@googlemail.com Tel: 07538 650 286 (PLEASE leave your name + contact details)

A film inspired by the record shops and their unfair demise, whilst championing those like Daddy Vego, Duke Vin, Count Suckle, sound systems and other sources never ever forgotten.

This film has been designed to inspire. Educate. Note history!

A conference to discuss the issue of slavery, and of reparations to those countries exploited by the slave traders.

Venue: Board Room, Unity House (RMT head office), 39 Chalton Street, London NW1

Invitation and details in attached document.