The 'Robin Hood Tax' campaign has been set up to gain support for a tax on financial institutions. The tax would be on all financial transactions at a rate of 0.5%. This could make around £250 000 000 tax revenue each year.
As taxation revenue was around £606bn in 2007/2008, an extra £250bn would help improve a lot of peoples lives
PRESENT: Josie Toussaint-Pinnock, Adrian Finney, Carol Foster, John Reid, Dean O'Hanlon, Pat O'Brien, Gary Lazell, Janine Booth, Bob McMunn, Mark Harding, Glenroy Watson, Vaughan Thomas, Will Reid IN ATTENDANCE: Steve Hedley (Regional Organiser), Olly New (Council of Executives member)
ORGANISATION AND RECRUITMENT PLAN
The Executive endorsed the recruitment and organising plan, including amendments agreed by the meeting held immediately before the Executive.
A Morden and Oval branch busworkers meeting will take place on Monday 8th March from 4pm at Ruskin House Trade Union Centre, 23, Coombe Road, Croydon, CR0 1BD. The nearest train stations are East Croydon from the north and South Croydon from the south. It is a five minute walk from both stations or bus routes 119, 312 and 466 from East Croydon or 405 from Redhill to Coombe Road bus stop.
All RMT members are welcome to attend.
Click '2 attachments' / file names to download a leaflet and the text of the agreement reached at ACAS.
Following developments today at ACAS, the RMT has agreed to suspend ALL action for this Sunday (and subsequent Sundays following this).
Over the next few weeks, a procedure will be agreed whereby any discussions on roster changes will need to go through a defined process that allows for full discussions to occur at local, functional and company council levels.
From Thompson's (solicitors) website ...
Employees working in organisations that employ 250 or more people will, from 6 April 2010, have the legal right to request time off for studying or training. This will then be extended to all organisations from 6 April 2011.
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The final meeting of the Operational Managers Review took place to further discuss the Grade Progression. At the end of the meeting TSSA and BTOG decided they would offer it up to their members with a recommendation of acceptance (ASLEF were not represented at this important meeting). The RMT rejected it and intend to do so at the next Company Council Feb 17th.
This is an official RMT circular - IR/57/10 dated 11th of February 2010, from General Secretary Bob Crow.
In this circular:
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Standing up for all workers
Wednesday 10th February 2010
In your article titled TfL staff lobby bosses over pay offer (M Star February 3) Steve Hedley, RMT regional organiser, is totally correct in his assertion: "Unless people are prepared to take industrial action, this will keep happening."
Nominations for Regional Council officers and Executive members closed yesterday. Nominations received were as follows:
Your Trains Health & Safety reps write ...
As LU's purse strings tighten we have noticed standards falling across the combine in regard to pigeon guano all over the place. The manager who carried out the water points survey across the combine has been tasked by the Trains Health & Safety Council to look at the worst offending areas; he is the new 'guano guy'.