Talks at ACAS today concentrated on setting up a review of London Underground's plans to 'reorganise' ie. cut jobs. The talks finished for the day shortly before 6pm, and will reconvene tomorrow at 1pm.
This coming Saturday (23 October), FBU members in the London Fire Brigade will be on strike. this will mean that the LFB will not be available to provide its usual fire protection service to London Underground.
Click '1 attachment'/ file name to download a pro forma that you can use to invoke London Underground Ltd's safety procedures in the face of any threat to your health and safety. Please download and submit to your manager should you feel that the absence of fire cover places you and/or others in serious and imminent danger.
Workers in national and local rail services in France are on strike to defend their pensions - and they need our support! All grades on the French railway system have been taking strike action as part of a national, general strike movement to force the government to withdraw its proposed pension reform bill. The pensions reform that Sarkozy's government is planning would see early retirement entitlement be taken away from rail workers with physically demanding jobs, and see other workers' retirement ages pushed up by at least two years.
On the eve of the government’s expected announcement of savage cuts to the transport budget, specialist transport union RMT has produced new figures showing that at a time when passengers are being warned to expect fare increases of up to 40% over the next four years it’s bonanza time in the boardrooms of Britain’s main private transport operators.
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed this morning that following a massive vote for action London Underground fleet maintenance staff members have been instructed to work only to process instructions (vehicle maintenance instructions), not to carry out higher grade working and not to cooperate with staff movements away from home locations. This action will commence from 00.01 hours on Tuesday 26th October 2010 and will have a major impact.
On Saturday, we will be marching against cuts. So on Thursday, we will be giving out leaflets encouraging people to join us on the march. Please come and help if you can.
RMT negotiators will today attend ACAS to continue talks about our ongoing dispute with London Underground about job cuts. As talks ended last Tuesday, your union's position was as follows:
RMT accepts the invitation of ACAS to participate in the proposed review, beginning on Monday 18 October for two weeks.
Our industrial action remains on, but we will review it dependant on progress in these talks.
Click '1 attachment' / file name to download the latest issue of the RMT London Taxis branch newsletter.
ATTENDANCE
LORD YOUNG’S report on health and safety is a hatchet-job based on prejudice that will do nothing to reduce workplace injuries, deaths and industrial disease, transport union RMT says today.
Under cover of simplifying the regime, freeing businesses from ‘unnecessary bureaucratic burdens’ and ending a ‘compensation culture’ that does not exist, the real aim of the report is to pave the way for a slashing of health and safety budgets, the union says.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said: