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How We Organise The Strike

Submitted by janine on Tue, 01/04/2008 - 23:00
  • Do not book on for duties starting after 18:30 on Sunday 6 April. We do not all walk out at that time: if your shift started earlier in the day, you work the full shift. In effect, the first duties to strike will be Sunday night turns.
  • Stay off work on Monday and Tuesday. Do not work your duty on Wednesday unless it starts after 18:29. In effect, the first duties that resume work will be the Wednesday night turns. Everyone else, return to work on Thursday.
  • We are striking for 72 hours because in the past, 24-hour strikes have proved ineffective. It is better to lose pay and win our fight than to lose a little less pay but also lose the battle.
  • You do not need to tell management that you are striking, either in advance or on the day. Just do not book on for duty. This will be recorded on your attendance record as ‘industrial action official’, not as ‘absent’.
  • Help build support for the strike by talking to your workmates about the importance of the action, and giving out leaflets such as this one.
  • Your RMT branch is organising pickets at depots, service control centres and stations. This is a chance to raise the public profile of the strike, give leaflets to passers-by, and explain to any doubters the importance of taking part in the action. Come and join the picket line: contact your RMT branch for details.
  • Do not think that you can ‘stay out of it’ or ‘remain neutral’ during a strike. If you break the strike and come to work, you will be helping management to drive through their casualisation attacks. Instead, join your workmates in taking action and help us to defend Underground workers and win better rights for everyone.
  • However you voted, respect the result of the ballot. If there had been a majority ‘No’ vote, then there would be no strike action and we would all have to accept that. Instead, there was a big ‘Yes’ majority, so we should all abide by that and take part in the strike.
  • Come to the reps’ and members’ meeting: Thursday 3 April, 12:00, Friends House, Euston Road
  • If you have questions, or want to volunteer to help build the action, contact your local RMT rep or branch (contact details should be on your station’s union noticeboard), or phone one of your RMT Stations & Revenue Council reps.
  • If you are on probation, managers may say you are 'not allowed' to strike, or that it will affect the outcome of your probation. If your manager does this, report it to your RMT rep. Do not be dissuaded from striking.
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