RMT press release, issued today ...The RMT said today that the 24 hour strike on the Victoria Line, starting at 9pm this evening, is “rock solid” after management refused last minute talks to resolve the dispute over passenger door safety and the bullying and victimization of RMT members.

Click on '1 attachment' / file name to download this leaflet. Read the text below.

Today, Victoria Line drivers are striking. One reason for this is that London Underground will not install safety equipment that stops doors opening on the wrong side of the train.

RMT has produced a leaflet for duty managers urging them to support rather than work against RMT's dispute jobs, pay and justice. You can download it here. Duty managers in your area might find it interesting.

RMT London Calling is a new website for RMT's London Transport region. It has a similar format to this site - in fact, we would go so far as to say it was inspired by the success of 'RMT Platform'!

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.

RMT press release, issued today

SOME 12,000 Network Rail maintenance workers in Britain’s biggest rail union are to escalate strike action with a four-day stoppage from next Friday after the company cold-shouldered a call for top-level discussions to resolve a long-running harmonisation dispute.

RMT members have already taken strike action over two weekends, the most recent stoppage going ahead over the weekend of July 26 and 27 after progress made in talks over harmonisation of pay and conditions was vetoed by Network Rail at director level.

RMT press release, issued today

AROUND 130 RMT members working for CBS Outdoor, the transnational subsidiary contracted to put up posters on London’s Tube, are to strike for four days from Thursday over a sub-inflation pay offer that would erode the living standards of already low-paid staff.

After voting by a margin of nearly eleven to one for industrial action, the members involved will not book on for any shifts commencing between 07:30 on Thursday August 7 and 07:29 on Monday August 11.

AROUND 1,000 members of London Underground’s biggest union working for the privatised Tube Lines infrastructure consortium have begun voting in a strike ballot aimed at winning an equal pay deal.

The vote by RMT members, sparked by a pay offer inferior to the 5.1 per cent deal agreed for staff doing identical work on Metronet, will close on August 13.

“Our members on Tube Lines are doing the same work as colleagues on Metronet and it is a nonsense to suggest that Tube Lines workers should be left worse off,” RMT general secretary Bob Crow said today.

RMT press release, issued today

London's biggest Tube union RMT is balloting members at Tube Lines for industrial action over pay following an offer that would have left them worse off than colleagues working for Metronet and London Underground.

"RMT is determined that Tube Line members don't fall behind in terms of rates of pay and conditions of service with other colleagues on the Tube netork," said RMT general secretary Bob Crow today.

RMT press release, issued today

A SECOND strike by 12,000 Network Rail maintenance workers in Britain’s biggest rail union is set to go ahead this weekend after progress made in last-ditch talks with Network Rail was vetoed by the company’s own head office.

RMT’s talks team believed it had made sufficient progress on a number of key issues arising out of the long-running harmonisation dispute to be able to recommend a suspension of this weekend’s action.

RMT press release, issued today

SOME 12,000 Network Rail maintenance workers in Britain’s biggest rail union are to strike again next weekend after talks on the long-running dispute over harmonisation of terms and conditions failed to make sufficient progress.

RMT members will not book on for shifts that commence between midday on Saturday July 26 and 17:59 on Sunday July 27. Members will also not undertake any overtime or ‘on-call’ work between 06:00 on Saturday July 26 and 06:00 on Monday July 28.

From the Regional Council newsletter

RMT press release

BRITAIN’S BIGGEST rail union is expecting rock-solid support from 12,000 Network Rail maintenance members from midday tomorrow as a two-day strike over harmonisation of terms and conditions gets under way.

After voting by a margin of nearly three to one for action, RMT member will not book on for shifts that commence between midday tomorrow (Saturday June 14) and 17:59 on Sunday. Members will also not undertake any overtime or ‘on-call’ work between 06:00 on Saturday June 14 and 06:00 on Monday June 16.

The new issue of Bakerloo line branch's newsletter urges readers to defend Jerome Bowes, sacked Elephant & Castle CSA. It also reports on management breaking the Framework Agreement for ex-Silverlink staff and on several issues for drivers.

Download it here.

The key issues that RMT is currently dealing with for Tube drivers are: Instructor operator training, role and responsibilities; new flexible working application policy; numbers of reps for each union in each depot. Unions and management have agreed a new transfer policy.

RMT called a 48-hour strike on Metronet over pensions, passes and privatisation. Since then ‘substantial progress’ has been made with Metronet/TfL suddenly discovering that they can offer guarantees to workers about pensions and passes after all!

From Stratford no.1 branch newsletter

Bring All Contracts Back In-House — Fight For Public Ownership

The crisis of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) on London Underground should mean the end of privatisation across our public services.