Dear Colleagues,
PUBLIC RALLY: SAVE LONDON'S PUBLIC TRANSPORT - Resist the managed decline of services, jobs and conditions, 7pm, Wednesday 31st August, Conway Hall, London, WC1R 4RL
Dear colleague,
TOC, Network Rail, LUL & London Overground - RMT Pre-Strike Online Rally
Wednesday 17th August from 6pm
As RMT members at the TOCs and Network Rail prepare to take further strike action on 18th and 20th August and members at London Underground and London Overground on the 19th August, please join General Secretary Mick Lynch and the rest of the Union's leadership at an online rally on Wednesday 17th August at 6pm in support of the Union's campaigns to defend jobs, pay and conditions.
RMT submitted the following comments to TfL / London Underground's consultation on its pay gap reports and plans.
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RMT comments on TfL pay gap action plan (and associated reports)
SUMMARY:
The pay gap reports show that the persistence (and in some aspects, worsening) of pay disadvantage experienced by women, black, ethnic minority and disabled workers arises from two main areas:
London Underground’s latest management bulletin says striking will only make matters worse. This from the management who agreed to operate the tube with no subsidy at all and only now realise they can’t do it.
The Mayor, government and TfL are having secret negotiations about OUR pensions, job security and working conditions.
RMT demanded to know what is in the financial offer made by government to TfL. They won’t tell us. All we get is mealy mouthed politician’s answers.
We demand REAL assurances:
Dear colleague,
PUBLIC RALLY: SAVE LONDON'S PUBLIC TRANSPORT - Resist the managed decline of services, jobs and conditions,
7pm, Wednesday 31st August, Conway Hall, London, WC1R 4RL
SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKERS - Morning Star Public Rally, Weds 10 August 2022
Dear Colleagues,
Senior Assistant General Secretary Eddie Dempsey will be speaking at the Morning Star rally SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKERS at the Indian YMCA (41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ) on Wednesday 10 August 2022.
Other speakers include Mick Whelan (ASLEF), Daniel Kebede (NEU), Ruth Hayes (Unite), Helen O'Connor (GMB), Sarah-Jane McDonagh (TSSA), John Hendy QC and Ben Chacko (Morning Star editor).
2nd August 2022
DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND - (LUL/14/2)
Further to my previous Circular (IR/135/22), dated 28th June 2022, this Union gave London Underground until today to provide assurances on three key issues of this dispute:
Strike action on the Tube and Overground to go ahead on 19 August
Transport workers on the London Underground and Overground network will take 24-hour strike action in separate disputes on August 19th.
Tube workers have been locked in a dispute over attacks to pensions and jobs for over 6 months while Overground workers employed by Arriva Rail London will strike over pay.
The RMT offers full support and solidarity with our comrade Jason Moriarty following his disclosure to his employer, London Underground, of a disability.
RMT London Transport region is organising to ensure that Brother Moriarty is defended and supported. Finsbury Park branch has passed a motion of support for Jason which is below, along with the National Executive Committees response.
Your Branch Officials have made the decision to make tomorrows Branch Meeting, 27th July 2022, a Hybrid Zoom meeting. This is due to the National Rail strike affecting some TOCs.
We understand some members and reps who live outside of London would struggle to attend. Therefore we will use a laptop to make the meeting Hybrid.