More messages of support for our fight against job cuts

Submitted by Admin on 29 November, 2010 - 18:34

As a London resident I completely agree with you about the importance of having adequate staff on the London Underground. In my view, there are currently too few staff and to reduce the numbers further is dangerous, unhelpful and demonstrates a lack of insight and too much focus on the bottom line.
Best wishes,
Caitlin Morrow

I support the strike - as a woman who often travels alone on tubes I really value having hard working and helpful tube staff on hand to ask for assistance.
Keep on fighting the cuts!
Katy Arnold

Links to media coverage of Tube strike

Submitted by Admin on 29 November, 2010 - 16:41
  • Bob Crow confirms to Sky News plans for further strikes in New Year - here
  • US site Bloomberg reveals that the strike could cost London's economy £48m: here
  • The Guardian repeats the inaccurate statement that the strike is about "800 ticket office job cuts" - here (I have written a letter challenging this)
  • The Harrow Times appears peeved that TfL told them there would be a Metropolitan Line service then could not deliver one - here
  • The Press Association reports that TfL stands accused of lying - here
  • Evening Standard: Ed Miliband accused of dithering over dispute - here

Message from Bob Crow to Tube strikers

Submitted by Janine on 29 November, 2010 - 16:00

LUL safety and jobs – congratulations on another solid strike

Dear Colleague,

I would like to congratulate you on delivering another rock-solid strike to defend safety and jobs.

TfL’s dishonesty about the effects of the dispute, as well as their lies over unstaffed stations have now well and truly caught up with them and that the public no longer trust them.

More messages of support for our fight against job cuts

Submitted by Admin on 29 November, 2010 - 15:50

I support the strike - as a woman who often travels alone on tubes I really value having hard working and helpful tube staff on hand to ask for assistance.
Keep on fighting the cuts!
Katy Arnold

I totally support what ever action you have to take to defend your members and our tube/rail services.
Paul Neale, Fire Brigades Union

Good luck in your dispute. It's a shame more workers didn't get organised, join unions and take on these wretched bosses - they make me sick, think they can walk all over people and get away with it.

Big Society? Big Cuts, Big Protest!

Submitted by Admin on 28 November, 2010 - 18:05

By James Wong McSweeney, RMT Regional Young Members' Officer:

On Wednesday 15th December at 10am a delegation from the RMT will present hundreds of signed postcards from passengers across London to the Mayor, Boris Johnson, calling for an end to the threatened jobs massacre. As part of this a protest has been called to raise awareness of what the reality of the jobs massacre will be and to call for the re-instatement of the three victimised reps: Arwyn Thomas; Eamonn Lynch; and Peter Hartshorn.

December 2010 Newsletter

Submitted by Joffe on 28 November, 2010 - 09:10

The latest Branch newsletter features articles on the Tribunal Judge's ruling on Eamonn Lynch's sacking, the jobs and safety strike and LUL's Rainbow procedure.

Click on the attachment to download it.

Minutes: Regional Council meeting, 25 November 2010

Submitted by Admin on 27 November, 2010 - 21:40

ATTENDANCE

  • Bakerloo –
  • Camden No.3 – Becky Crocker, Pat O'Brien, John Reid
  • Central Line West – Vaughan Thomas
  • DLR –
  • East Ham – Unjum Mirza, Gary Lazell, James Wong-McSweeney
  • Finsbury Park – John Kelly, Glenroy Watson, Dave Rayfield, John Noonan
  • Hammersmith & City – Mac McKenna, Josie Toussaint-Pinnock, Shaun McKenzie
  • Jubilee South & East London Line –
  • London Taxis –
  • LU Engineering – Lewis Peacock, Andy Littlechild, Jackie Darby, Simon Cottington
  • LU Fleet – Kieran Crowe
  • Morden & Oval – Arwyn Thomas

Resolution: ACAS Talks

Submitted by Admin on 27 November, 2010 - 21:35

This resolution, submitted by LU Engineering branch, was carried unanimously by the November meeting of the Regional Council.

That this region fails to understand the logic of the talks at ACAS over the station job losses that have excluded our elected Regional Organiser and left the team at ACAS without an elected official to represent and negotiate for us all at these talks. We therefore call on this exclusion to be withdrawn and our Regional Organiser reinstated to these talks.

Resolution: Escalation of LU Job Cuts Dispute

Submitted by Admin on 27 November, 2010 - 21:01

This resolution, submitted (and amended) by Finsbury Park branch, was carried by the November meeting of the Regional Council:

This Region calls upon the union to urgently campaign for an escalation of the action in the dispute regarding jobs and safety on LUL as already agreed at regional level in order to win the dispute.

We recommend that one of the days for action should be Saturday 18th December.