It's confirmed: Boris Johnson has broken his promise that no London Underground staff would be penalised for being unable to get to work because of the heavy snowfall on 2 February. In answers to questions put to him by Green Party Assembly Member Darren Johnson, the Mayor backs up the unfair actions of London Underground management in every single respect.

Now we know how much a promise from our Tory Mayor is really worth!

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Below are the answers to the follow-up questions that Darren Johnson raised on our behalf at the London Assembly's Mayor's Question Time this month. They are based on information that RMT's London Transport Regional Council provided. After the Mayor ignored our letter, we wrote to all GLA members about this, and both Darren Johnson and Labour's Valerie Shawcross have taken up the issue on our behalf.

Following RMT's lobbying of Greater London Assembly members on the issue of "snow day pay", both Labour's Valerie Shawcross and the Green Party's Darren Johnson have offered to raise the issue with the Mayor.

Darren Johnson asked the following question and got the following reply:

RMT press release, issued today

BRITAIN’S BIGGEST rail and Tube union hailed today’s scheduled tabling in parliament of new fire-safety regulations for sub-surface stations as vindication of a five-year campaign to retain standards imposed in the wake of the 1987 King’s Cross fire, which claimed 31 lives.

Saturday January 10 2009, 11am - 3pm, Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1

Speakers: Brian Caton POA General Secretary Bob Crow RMT General Secretary Professor Mary Davis John McDonnell MP Mark Serwotka PCS General Secretary Chair John Leach RMT President

Open to all. Please register in advance at info@rmt.org.uk, or write to RMT, Unity House, 39 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1JD

Download a leaflet by clicking on the file name below.

Early Day Motion 1872 Tabled by John McDonnell and signed by 37 MPs so far

CONDITIONS FOR CLEANERS EMPLOYED ON LONDON UNDERGROUND

I was very pleased to propose this resolution at RMT's AGM. I had written it as a response to the collapse in Labour's vote in the May 1 local elections, when Boris Johnson won the London Mayor's job for the Tories and Labour Councillors around the country had to clear their desks in the Town Hall. My branch, Stratford no.1, discussed and agreed it, and thus it found its way to the union's AGM as an emergency resolution.

Delegates to RMT's Annual General Meeting last week unanimously agreed the following resolution, which had been submitted by the union's Stratford no.1 branch.

This union notes the disastrous results for the Labour Party in the May 1st elections. We believe that working class voters have deserted the Labour Party because it has abandoned working class people through its policies of cuts, privatisation, war and lining the pockets of the rich at the expense of the poor and low paid.

We are also appalled at the advances made by the fascist BNP in these elections.

Nicked from Bakerloo line RMT’s newsletter

Buffoon Boris Johnson’s London Mayoral campaign is well and truly underway and guess who BoJo sees as his public enemy number one?

Is it the fat cats like Metronet who cream millions from Londoners then go bust leaving the public to pick up the bill? Nope. Is it the private companies who will rake in trillions from the Olympic contracts while the tax payer foots the bill? Nope.

Unfortunately, BoJo the Buffoon sees himself as some kind of 21st Century Maggie Thatcher and has decided that RMT-bashing is a vote winner for him.