From RMT General Secretary Bob Crow
As part of the RMT campaign to have a scrappage scheme introduced for taxis in order to alleviate the impact of vehicle age limits on our members livelihoods, RMT have launched an e-petition.
RMT members are encouraged to sign this petition by visiting: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35894
TRANSPORT UNION RMT today demanded action against a trade union blacklisting website which is actively targeting activists at all levels – even including volunteer union learning reps whose “crime” is helping colleagues acquire skills, training and education.
The blacklisting site - http://www.hrblacklist.com/static/view/about/ - makes no bones about its intentions. HR Blacklist is run by Human Resources Consulting and purports to “tell the truth about employees” – in reality it is an on-line successor to the Consulting Association and its anti-union blacklisting activities.
SERTUC delegates report from RMT Rep Dean O'Hanlon
Comrades, I attended as a delegate yesterday on behalf of the Union and made some brief notes of issues raised.
Meeting started with a minutes silence for Ben Rickman, secretary of Brent Trades Council who died on 16th October.
President reiterated the people's charter and called for the Labour Party to make its tenets policy.
Check out the latest Black & Ethnic Minority members' newsletter. It has the dates for our next set of meetings, plus details of how RMT members can get nominated for our National Committee.
The Advisory Committee meets three times a year and its role is to advise the Council of Executives on issues relating to black and ethnic minority members.Items are submitted to the Advisory Committee by Branches and Regional Councils.The three-year term of office for members of the National Black and Ethnic Minority Members’ Advisory Committee finishes at the end of this year.
Nominations from Branches are currently being sought for delegates to serve on this Advisory Committee from January 2013 until December 2015. Please inform your Branch Secretary if you want to be nominated.
For some time now RMT Trains Health & Safety Council (THSC) representatives have been seeking a process for the retention of manual handling / operation skills on automatic lines. With more lines moving to automatic operation it is vital that Train Operators retain their manual handling skills. These skills will be required during degraded working, or be it problems with your train, signalling or some other factor and also form part of your CMS.
At the London Transport Regional council on 25 Oct the following emergency resolution from Jubilee South branch was put before the Region:
Right to elect workplace representatives
This branch is disgusted with the attacks being made by management and the devious methods they are using to try not to recognize our rep for Stratford/North Greenwich depots.
Jason Moriarty, elected for this position by members of the branch, has refused to be recognized by LUL despite him previously being the rep and having full recognition.
In order to address the concerns of women members of the RMT, and see how the union can support you, each region is putting out this survey. It is fairly simple and will only take a few minutes to complete.
Please could all London Transport Region Women members take the time to fill it in.
We note the correspondence giving the views of the strike committee formed by our Tube Lines reps.
In line with this, we instruct our Tube Lines members to take industrial action as follows:
We instruct the General Secretary to:
