The RMT's General Secretary Bob Crow will appear on the BBC's Question Time programme tonight (Thursday 22nd of July) at 10.35. Shortly afterwards it will be available on the BBC's Iplayer here.
RMT activists joined the London Pride parade to show their solidarity with the unions LGBT members and to promote the unions pride in its own diversity.
Click 'read more' to see more photos from the day.
This year's Train Grades AGM will be held at Unity House on Thursday 29th April from 14:30 to 16:00
Please try and attend, we need as many Reps and Members there as possible to make it a good meeting, and also to get a good turn out for the election of Officers and a Chair and Secretary for this committee.
See you there
Will Reid Trains Functional Council Rep 2nd Floor , Room 19 70 Old Broad Street London EC2M 1QS Auto:49931 Landline02070279931 Mobile: 07889089064
Notts Stop The BNP held a conference in Nottingham to discuss how to counter the threat from the British National Party (BNP) and the English Defence League (EDL). The conference was organised with the support of Workers Liberty. There were Delegates from Stoke, Lincoln, Liverpool, Sheffield, Amber Valley, Birmingham, London and Nottingham - many of whom were members of local anti-fascist organisations, or unions. The RMT had a good turnout.
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.
The 'Union's Forum' is being held on Sunday 11th April 18.30 -20.30, at Broadway Theatre, Broadway, Barking, IG11 7LS. (Map)
Hope not Hate and Billy Bragg will be attending the Forum which will discuss the consequences of the BNP strengthening its grip and the positive alternative of uniting the local community to fight for jobs, social housing and public services.
Read the full story to see the message from General Secretary Bob Crow about this event.
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.
2012 Neasden Branch Meeting
Meetings are held at 16:00 Hours on the Following dates
Wednesday 4th January
Wednesday 29th February
Wednesday 28th March
Wednesday 25th April
Wednesday 23th May
Wednesday 20th June
Wednesday 18th July
Wednesday 15th August
Wednesday 12th September
Wednesday 10th OctoberLocal Rep Nominations
RAIL UNION RMT will today (Wednesday 27th January) hand a dossier of safety failures and maintenance cuts to MP’s as rail workers lobby parliament this lunchtime in protest at plans by Network Rail to axe a further 1500 safety-critical jobs.
Hundreds of rail workers have contacted a confidential RMT email line to say lives could be put at risk. The dossier highlights the worst examples of where the scaling back of work and changing standards in preparation for the job cuts are already leading to a serious deterioration in safety.
Venue: Hotel Victoria, Great Yarmouth