This resolution, submitted by Bakerloo branch, proposed by East Ham and seconded by LU Engineering, was carried by the November meeting of the Regional Council.

The LTRC congratulates all RMT and TSSA members for their solidarity and determination to resist the attacks on our job from the tube bosses and the Tory Mayor. We also place on record our thanks and sincere appreciation to those non members who respected our picket lines.

We note that the last 3 strikes have shown the resolve of our members. We also note that the action has stretched management to the limit in their attempts to say that LU are running some kind of service for propaganda reasons.

This Regional Council believes that to win this strike we need to increase the action to 48 hour periods. We believe that to bring our members with us we need to provide hardship payments for those who request it to cover the loss of wages because of the increase in the extra day's action.

Further, given this union's leadership in resisting cuts to jobs and services, we call on the labour and trade union movement to rally behind us. To this end the national union will call for mass rallies at four locations on the tube - north, south, east and west - to build mass pickets on the strike days concerned. We also believe that all strike action should be cordinated with other unions eg the FBU, NUJ etc.

We call on the general grades committee to implement this policy in its entirety.