RMT press release, issued today

ANY THREAT of forced redundancies of RMT members at TfL and London Underground will be resisted, the capital’s biggest tube and rail union said today.

RMT press release, issued today

MPS HAVE a chance to bring back some fairness into industrial relations when they debate the Employment Bill tomorrow, Britain’s specialist transport union said today.

RMT today urged MPs to back amendments to the bill that would simplify rules on balloting for industrial action, stop employers victimising strikers or using agency labour to break lawful strikes and allow unions to expel fascists from their ranks (details below).

RMT press release, issued today

THE DISPROPORTIONATE impact on working people of the economic recession underlines the need for the trade union movement to campaign for public ownership of public services and utilities and for a massive programme of council-house building, transport union RMT will argue at the TUC today.

In today's debate on the economy the union will urge Congress to make the economic, social and environmental case for public ownership and to highlight the inefficiency demonstrated by the huge sums being wasted by the part-privatisation of London Underground.

RMT press release, issued today

THERE IS no agreement with London Underground staff to run the network round the clock during the 2012 Olympics, the Tube’s biggest union said today.

Following the mayor’s public announcement that the network would operate 24 hours a day during the 2012 games, RMT reveals that it has yet to be approached by the mayor, TfL or LUL management for discussions on the many complex issues involved.

RMT press release, issued today

INFLATION-BUSTING fare increases are a short-sighted fix that will create more problems than they solve, London Underground’s biggest union says today.

As the mayor of London announced increases at one per cent ahead of inflation, RMT called for an end to the colossal waste of public money still being poured into private pockets under the part-privatisation of the Tube’s infrastructure

RMT press release, issued today

LONDON UNDERGROUND'S biggest union today condemned the company's cavalier attitude to safety after it emerged that 23 passengers, including a child, were trapped in a lift at Elephant and Castle station for nearly an hour-and-a-half on Friday night.

The passengers' ordeal, which began at around 21:30, was prolonged unnecessarily because inexperienced and inadequately trained managers drafted in to scab on striking station staff had been left in charge, RMT said today.

RMT press release, issued today

RMT Station Staff working at eleven Tube stations between Plaistow and Upminster on London Underground’s District Line and at Elephant and Castle, Charing Cross and Lambeth North on the Bakerloo are to strike for 24 hours from 04:30 tomorrow, Friday August 22 in two separate disputes.

RMT press release, issued today

A 48-HOUR strike by more than 700 RMT members working for four cleaning subcontractors on London Underground scheduled to begin at 05:30 tomorrow morning has been suspended after a breakthrough in talks that will deliver the London living wage to all Tube cleaners.

After days of intensive talks at conciliation service ACAS, workers on Tubelines contracts will receive an initial 60p an hour increase from September 1, and will receive a further £1.30 hourly increase from April 1 2009.

RMT press release, issued today

OVER 700 RMT members working for four cleaning subcontractors on London Underground are to strike for a third time in their campaign to win the London living wage.

Workers at ISS, ITS, ICS and GBM, who despite statements from London Mayor Boris Johnson are still paid nearly £2 an hour below the LLW of £7.45, will not book on for shifts that commence between 05:30 on Thursday August 21 and 05:29 on Saturday August 23.

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

SOME 85 station staff at London Underground’s Waterloo and Westminister stations are being balloted for industrial action by the Tube’s biggest union over the unfair dismissal of a station assistant, despite the lack of any evidence that an alleged ‘altercation’ took place. The RMT ballot will close on August 19.

RMT press release, issued today

AROUND 90 RMT Station Staff working at eleven Tube stations between Plaistow and Upminster on London Underground’s District Line are being balloted for industrial action over a breakdown of industrial relations.

RMT press release, issued today

SOME 70 RMT station staff at a dozen stations at the north end of London Underground’s Metropolitan line are to strike for 24 hours from 05:30 tomorrow (Thursday) morning against the forced transfer of staff.

Members returned a 13-to-one majority for action after senior LUL management breached its own procedures to tell staff on permanent postings that they would have to move jobs – over-ruling a potential solution negotiated locally.

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 London Underground members on the Rickmansworth Group have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action next Thursday (August 7, 2008) following a local management decree that a number of CSA members were alleged to be surplus to requirements and compulsorily transferred.

"These draconian measures were taken despite staff being assured by the general station manager that they were part and parcel of the normal reserve compliment and some staff actually moved home on the strength of it," said RMT general secretary Bob Crow 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 man was arrested by plain clothes police this morning following an attack on striking station attendants at Elephant and Castle Underground station.

RMT press release, issued today

AROUND 100 RMT Tube station staff at Elephant and Castle, Charing Cross and Lambeth North are to strike for 24 hours from 19:00 tonight to demand the re-instatement of a colleague dismissed after defending himself against a violent assault on New Year's Eve.

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.