Bakerloo line RMT branch has produced this special newsletter following the circulation of a fake 'RMT' notice designed to get drivers not to support Jerome.

The text is below. The newsletter is attached as a PDF.

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ELEPHANT DRIVERS
use your vote - yote YES!

All drivers are reminded that the ballot for strike action closes on September 10th. Please return your ballot paper with a yes vote.

You will have seen the fake newsletter supposedly from the RMT regional council. The fact that someone has actually sat down and spent hours producing such a document is itself scandalous. To encourage people to vote no, to encourage scabbery, to promote disunity in the work force is offensive in the extreme. Are these people trade unionists? Are they scabs? We know who you are. Put your name on your newsletter cowards and scabs.

The fact is this: Jerome Bowes should not have been sacked. His reps at all stages have stated that Jerome acted in self defence. This is how the South London Press reported this;“Trouble flared at the Tube station as hundreds of New Year revellers filed through the gates to take advantage of the free travel available on the night.

A fight broke out between two passengers, and after it broke up a passenger confronted Jerome and blamed him for not stepping in.

Jerome, who lives on the Kennington Park Estate, said: “This guy was having a go at me and I turned away from him like the company tells us to if we feel in danger.

"I then felt what I thought was a punch on my back.

“I live around here and know what it is like. My first reaction was to spin round and defend myself.”

Jerome caught the man in the face and the police were called to the scene.

No one was charged in relation to the incident.

The passenger was told to leave the station and Jerome went home.

He was suspended a day later and sacked on April 29 for using aggressive behaviour and making contact with the passenger.”

The still images do not and cannot show the full picture.

Why would the RMT be supporting Jerome Bowes if we believed he assaulted a passenger unprovoked? We are supporting Jerome because management on this are in the wrong. This could have been any of us.

Back the union. Back Jerome. Tell the scabs were to go.

UNITED WE WILL WIN JEROME'S REINSTATEMENT