The branch is holding a special presentation for members with 10, 25, 40 and 50 years service on the 6th December 2019, details below.
If you have not received an invite and feel that you have the correct service then please email
LUEngineering@rmt.org.uk
Many thanks
https://www.luengineeringrmt.co.uk/event/branch-xmas-social-long-service-awards-2019/
For more details
https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/credit-union/
Dear ALL,
The closing date for the Transformation Ballot is Tuesday 16th July.
It is very important that everyone has a vote and uses it as there are legal thresholds to achieve.
Therefore please vote YES for strike action.
This is a vitally important dispute that affects many people on LUL .
This is about how we discuss Job losses in Operational Areas and is happening now.
Initially, LUL tried to force incorrect processes on our reps in the Transplant area and we resisted and had the matter stopped.
Now they are forcing their version of how they consult job losses throw and steamrollering over your agreements and protect.
As a reminder, the RMT have won agreements that:
The answer is simple. Please VOTE ‘YES’ if you want to protect what rights your union has won for you over the years, or VOTE ‘NO’ if you agree with LUL
If you have not received a ballot paper, please call 0800 376 3706 for a replacement
UNITY IS STRENGTH
The RMT are looking for reps across various areas where we currently have vacancies.
Union Reps: They represent you. They should listen to your views and make sure management hear and act on what our members want. They are here to help you if you have problems and if you get in trouble. Sometimes it will seem like the only friend you have is your union rep. So support them to support you
Health and Safety Reps: We come to work to earn money, not to go home in a body bag or hurt. Unionised work places are safer. We work together with companies and sometimes in conflict to make sure that our work places are safe. Your reps carry out inspections and investigations and regularly meet with companies to ensure it is safe at work
Union Learner Reps: We want everyone to fulfil their potential. That can be through pay and conditions but also through education. Union Learner Reps are here to help you through education. They can help you find courses and maybe get release from work and funding.
So if you want to make a difference then contact
LUEngineering@rmt.org.uk for more details
The Bob Crow Branch overwhelmingly backed Sean Hoyle for General Secretary tonight at our branch meeting.
Both Sean and Mick Cash spoke well and were a credit to our union, but ultimately, it was Sean’s passion and vision for the future that won the vote.
Sean stated
To learn more see below
ELECTION OF GENERAL SECRETARY
TERM OF OFFICE – 22nd SEPTEMBER 2019 to 21st SEPTEMBER 2024
LIST OF CANDIDATES & CANDIDATES’ BRANCH CIRCULARS
In accordance with Rule 13, Clauses 5 to 8, I am writing to advise you that nominations for the following candidates were received at this Office on or before Saturday 6th April 2019:
Name Employer Candidate’s Branch
Mick Cash RMT Watford
Sean Hoyle Wightlink Portsmouth
Also, I hereby publish Mick Cash’s Branch Circular, as received by this Office on or before 6th April 2019.
Branches that have not already nominated a candidate in this election may do so by using the form attached to Circular No. MF/22/19, dated 7th March 2019, which contained full details of the ballot requirements and election schedules. This should be completed and sent to Unity House, 39 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD, to arrive no later than WEDNESDAY 29th MAY 2019. Nominations received after this date cannot be accepted.
Voting will be by postal ballot by members of the Union.
Ballot papers will be sent to all members entitled to vote during the week commencing Monday 24th June 2019. Completed ballot papers must be received by the independent scrutineer, Electoral Reform Services, by no later than the first post of Tuesday 27th August 2019.
Yours sincerely
Michelle Rodgers
President
Portsmouth Branch Circular GS Election 2019
UPDATE FOLLOWING TfL ENGINEERING CONSULTATION
We met with the management yesterday (9th May) and discussed a range of issues.
The main topics we discussed were when results would be known, VS, SAE, development plans, targeted development plans, staff comms & the Resource Planning Tool.
We talked about the number of assessments that have been scored and input into the database. We also talked about your concerns over when people will find out whether or not they have been successful. The management said they had approximately 300 assessments to score and input, which they expected to be completed by the end of next week. I did ask for a comms to be sent out to staff to let them know that.
As yet we don’t know what a “targeted development plan” looks like and neither does the management. I have asked them to work on what a hypothetical plan would contain. This is going to be different to a development plan where someone just missed passing the assessment. We need to see an example of what a targeted plan would look like so we can find the problems before the plans become live. We also clarified what people on targeted development plans would do whilst on the plan. We asked for this to be made clear in the next comms. We asked about the process as this doesn’t fall under any current policy/process and we want to make sure that staff are treated fairly and that the right of appeal is there. I asked that if someone goes on a plan they know which role they would be going into at the end of the plan if they were successful. Management said they would look at this.
We asked if people who fell just short of passing would be able to ask for VS. The management confirmed that people in this group wouldn’t get VS. Then we asked about staff who get a role they didn’t preference at all. The management said they will look at this.
We talked about when SAE would be used and said that it would also need to be used at the end of the targeted development plan if someone had failed the plan because that member of staff may be able to find a role elsewhere in TfL/LUL.
We talked about the Resource Planning Tool. This is still being tested but we are hoping to see demonstration of it soon.
We asked about seeing the Transition Plan and also an updated CAP.
To see future events happening with regards to the Branch and RMT, please see our events page
Please VOTE ‘1’ for Steven Skelly
He is a proven candidate that can deliver for members
A massive week in our campaign
Our collective message was clear – We are done with stonewalling and whitewashes.
https://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2018/03/23/spycops-victims-walkout-police-inquiry
https://leftfootforward.org/2018/03/government-must-restore-credibility-of-spy-cops-inquiry/
Blacklist Support Group would like to have it placed on record our appreciation for all the activists, lawyers, investigative journalists, researchers, trade unionists and politicians who have worked alongside us and whose efforts have finally forced the Met Police to make these admissions.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43507728
https://www.union-news.co.uk/met-police-admit-spying-on-trade-unionists-for-blacklisting-bosses/
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/police-blacklisting-admission-could-lead-to-fresh-legal-action/
Blacklist Support Group open letter to our Police Commissioner’s over police collusion and spying.
The Blacklist Support Group notes the recent and most shocking disclosures and statement of the Metropolitan Police regarding the undercover policing scandal. It is with huge dismay that it has taken 6 years for the Metropolitan Police to admit that police supplied information to the unlawful construction blacklist. And only then after our legal representatives complained to the IPCC back in 2012.
Our attention must now turn to the solutions. Aside from any legal action against these political policing units, we call upon Police Commissioners to now come out in full support of those who suffered as a consequence of these clandestine anti-democratic operations.
We therefore ask the Police Commissioners to go on record and condemn the actions of the undercover police units spying on trade unions unreservedly and call for these covert political policing units that spy on legal democratic political campaigns should be disbanded immediately.
Roy Bentham co-Secretary of the BSG added:
“This culture of impunity has to end. As someone who seen it as a Hillsborough survivor it’s appalling it still appears to be rife within our police forces. As Labour politicians, our commissioners also have a duty to serve the people who voted them in. A statement on denouncing these black ops is surely the bare minimum and we need promises of transparency going forward as that is the only way to win our trust back as ordinary working class citizens”
http://www.ier.org.uk/news/think-tank-blacklisted-workers-need-change-law-well-public-inquiry
Letters have gone out to Unite members with regards to this issue as set out in the settlement terms of the High Court cases.
We have also contacted Unite on behalf of blacklisted workers represented by Guney Clarke & Ryan solicitors in the High Court litigation. We will update on that in due course
In solidarity and keep the faith
Roy Bentham – Joint secretary
Over the next few months and years there willl be discussions surrounding aligning Tube Lines and LUL T&C’s. We will be pushing for a movement upwards/
The below documents show the difference between LUL and Tube Lines conditions.
Comparison Document
LUL Pay Implementation Notice
LUL 2017 Implementation Notices
Tube Lines Pay Implementation Notice