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Italian state Railway to plunder Britain's railways

Now Government opens door to Italian state to plunder Britain’s railways

 

In a written statement today the Government have confirmed the list of bidders given a “fast track” passport to soak up lucrative franchises on Britain’s rip-off railways.

As well as the usual list of chancers, failures, spivs and foreign state operators, a new face has emerged, “Trenitalia” – an operation owned by the Italian state.

The announcement follows the confirmation last week that Arriva/DB Schenker will be taking over Northern Rail.

RMT General Secretary  Mick Cash said:

“With over three quarters of Britain’s train operations owned by overseas state companies the Government have now decided to widen the “fast track” route to the great British rail rip-off by opening the door to the Italian state operator – Trenitalia. They are following in the footsteps of the German, Dutch, French and Chinese state rail companies.

“Along with the usual gang of failures and rip off merchants we now face the prospect of rail services in Romford being plundered to subsidise rail services in Rome. That is a scandal which proves conclusively that this rotten Government will happily have any state running our rail services as long as it isn’t the British state.

“RMT will continue to fight this nonsense and will battle for a railway owned and run by the British public in the interest of safe and efficient services.”

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December Inflation Rates

New Inflation Rates

 

The Office for National Statistics has published inflation figures for the twelve months to November 2015.

 

The Retail Prices Index (RPI) stood at 1.1% for the year to November 2015, up 0.4% on the figure for the year to October 2015.

 

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose to 0.1% for the year to November 2015, up 0.2% on the figure for the year to October 2015.

 

I would be grateful if you could bring this Circular to the attention of all Branch members and further information will follow in the Pay Bulletin presently.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Mick Cash

General Secretary

 

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Blacklisting: Significant legal and political developments

  1. High Court blacklisting litigation saw a 2 day hearing on Mon-Tues last week (7-8 Dec), with an additional evening session on Tuesday. As the blacklisting firms have already admitted their guilt to the court, the entire 2 days was taken up with legal argument over the use of expert witnesses for calculating loss of earnings.

 

John Hendy QC told the court that the estimated total damages for the 600 claimants is in the region of £60-70million, made up of £40m in loss of earnings and £20-30m in general damages (defamation, human rights, hurt to feelings etc..). Lawyers on behalf of blacklisted workers had applied to use the expertise of Dr Victoria Wass from Cardiff Business School, one of the leading labour market economists in the UK who has acted as an expert witness in numerous high profile cases in the past.

 

The firms argued against the use of Dr. Wass, arguing that the ‘regression analysis’ that she was using was ‘too complicated’ and could not be fully understood by the court (even though virtually every university student in the world is taught regression analysis as a standard statistical tool nowadays). Dr Wass is able to provide a high level of precision in her estimates of loss because she has restricted access to micro data from the Office of National Statistics labour market database. Without an ounce of irony, lawyers for the blacklisting companies, told the court that having access to the ONS personal sensitive information could potentially be a breach of human rights and data protection!

 

In the end, Lord Supperstone and Master Leslie refused the claimants submission – once again, judges make findings in favour of big business and against the interests of blacklisted workers. This may be a minor setback in a small skirmish but we are still going to win the war.

 

The next provisional hearing date is 1st February 2016. Full trial is set to start in May 2016 and will last 10 weeks.

 

Blacklist Support Group would like to publicly thank the various legal teams for all the hard work they have carried out on our behalf over many years – its appreciated. Special mention to Liam Dunne, who as the lead solicitor for Guney Clark & Ryan has been representing us since 2009, who has recently got married: Congratulations!

 

  1. John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor was the keynote speaker at a packed Blacklist Support Group parliamentary meeting in Westminster on Monday 7th. McDonnell raised a number of issues during his speech which will have major impact even before the election of a Corbyn government. A few of John McDonnell’s quotes from the meeting:

“Blacklisting was a deliberate attempt to undermine trade unions by victimising a layer of activists they could not buy off”

“Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn and myself put in amendments to legislation on the issue of blacklisting over a period of decades – no government took any notice”

“We are currently drawing up advice for Labour councils over public procurement regarding blacklisting, human rights and environmental issues”

“Company directors who orchestrated blacklisting conspiracy should have been sent to prison. Blacklisting should be made a criminal offence”

“If we can have the Leveson inquiry into celebrities phones being hacked, then why can’t there be a pubic inquiry into blacklisting?”

These remarks could have immense significance for companies involved in blacklisting.

 

John McDonnell was a founder member of the Blacklist Support Group who has stood with blacklisted workers on picket lines, in parliament and at our meetings ever since. We stand shoulder to shoulder with him against all the attacks from the mainstream media and are proud to call him a comrade.

 

Also in attendance at the BSG meeting was Sir Bill Morris and speakers including Chris Stephens MP and blacklisted activist Helen Steel.

 

The BSG parliamentary meeting voted unanimously that the apology given to the women activists by the Met Police should be used as a template for any future apology that blacklisted workers should expect from the blacklisting construction firms and that a representative of the BSG should be present at any ongoing talks where such matters are being discussed.

 

  1. Scotland

Another speaker at the BSG parliamentary meeting was Chris Stephens MP for Glasgow South West (SNP trade union coordinator at Westminster). Stephens was questioned by many in the audience including UNITE EC member Frank Morris, over why blacklisting firms were still being awarded public contracts such as Dundee Riverside and ScotRail in Scotland, despite a Scottish government procurement note on the issue. Stephens gave positive assurances that behind the scenes, this were moving in the right direction and asked the audience to wait for a Scottish government announcement very soon.

 

There have also been massive developments in Scotland over the past few weeks regarding the role of undercover police spying on trade unions and social justice activists. The Pitchford inquiry into undercover policing has a strict remit which only allows investigation into the activities of the political policing units in England and Wales. But following a UNITE the Union, meeting in the Scottish parliament 3 weeks ago, there have been a number of articles in the Scottish press calling for an inquiry into the role of the undercover police in Scotland.

 

Blacklisted environmental activist Helen Steel was another speaker at the BSG meeting and she told how she was spied on by the undercover police officer John Dines when a member of London Greenpeace during the McLibel trial in the 1980s and how she had visited Scotland with the police spy. Steel also called for the activities of the undercover police in Scotland to be fully investigated by Pitchford.

 

Chris Stephens MP told the BSG meeting that he fully supported the call by BSG, Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (COPS) for there to be a public inquiry into the activities of undercover police in Scotland.

http://m.heraldscotland.com/news/14126896.Revealed__spying_unit_worked_with_Scottish_police/

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14142169.University_called_on_to_fire_former_police_sex_spy/?ref=mr&lp=4

http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2015/12/14/activists-demand-lamberts-sacking/

 

  1. Shrewsbury Pickets

Previously undisclosed documents have been discovered proving that the former Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath directly intervened in the Shrewsbury trial by supporting the role of the secret services in a hostile TV documentary be shown the night before the trial. “This is the real conspiracy” as Des warren famously said from the dock on the day he was sent to prison. The Shandow Home Secretary Andy Burnham raised the issue in parliament and demanded the release of all the undisclosed government documents relating to the Shrewsbury Pickets trial. . Great research work by Eileen Turnbull on behalf of the Shrewsbury 24. The government still refuse to publish the papers: 42 years after the miscarriage of justice.

 

http://www.tradeunionfreedom.co.uk/the-case-of-the-shrewsbury-24-parliament-tv/

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/05/ted-heath-used-tv-film-to-sway-jury-to-convict-building-strike-pickets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35047872?SThisFB

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/dec/09/andy-burnham-shrewsbury-24-papers-published-documents-unions

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/07/shrewsbury-trials-1970s-trade-unionists-ricky-tomlinson-edward-heath

http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/shrewsbury-24-establishment-cover-up-needs-to-be-exposed-says-unite/

http://www.ucatt.org.uk/national-security-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%98my-arse%E2%80%99

 

  1. Carillion

Carillion have dropped their claim for £3500 worth of legal costs against blacklisted engineer Dave Smith – great investigative journalism by Mark Metcalf who knew before we did! Despite an apology to the High Court, Carillion continue to bad mouth Smith on their corporate website viewed by millions globally. Some apology!

http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/12/blacklisting-costs-claim/16270

http://employmentwrites.com/index.php/2015/12/12/carillion-drops-blacklisting-costs-claim/

 

  1. MUA

Dave Smith report: “It was my honour to represent the Blacklist Support Group at the inaugural conference of the Maritime Union of Australia Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Many BSG supporters will remember Bob Carnegie​ who toured the UK this summer, who has just been elected as MUA secretary in Queensland and made the very generous offer. The MUA are one of the most leftwing unions, alongside CFMEU and ETU provide the blue collar militancy that Australian unions are famous for worldwide. Activists from the ITF and the rank & file IDC were present and told stories of solidarity, heroism against police racism and internationalism. I spoke about blacklisting, safety and had the privilege to join Brisbane River Ferry workers on protected industrial action. I also met the crew of Fijian seafarers who had been knocked for wages who were occupying a ship who face being deported and a detention centre for standing up for their rights. Solidarity to Bob Carnegie and all the comrades at MUA”

http://www.mua.org.au/educate_agitate_and_organise_inaugural_queensland_conference

 

  1. Orgreave

See below video in support of the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign calling for a full public inquiry into the events at Orgreave during the Miners Strike – another disgraceful example of the British state attack on working people prepared to stand p for their rights.

https://vimeo.com/148549592

 

  1. Glen Hart

RMT rep Glen Hart is being victimised by London Underground Limited – support his fight for union rights

http://www.rmtlondoncalling.org.uk/content/defend-glen-hart-demo-clapham-common-station-91215-0800

 

  1. Merry Xmas and festive greetings to all our friends and supporters around the world from the Blacklist Support Group.

We are in touching distance of a famous victory for the trade union movement – we could not have achieved it on our own.

Thank You for all your support over the years.

 

CHRISTMAS ON THE BLACKLIST by Time Served Jib Electrician
I stood up for my rights,
My workmates and my brothers,
On bleak construction sites,
I always shone a light,
For safety, and for others,
All these working men,
Have sisters, have mothers,
No work, my back a knife,
What will I tell the missus,
I’m blacklisted for life,
And not just for Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Section 15: We told LUL so

Last night a serious incident occurred using a Section 15 Possession whereby a message informing staff that there was a train in the area failed to be passed on. Staff could easily have been on the track with potentially fatal consequences when the Engineering Train went through the section of track.

The RMT are balloting over Section 15 Possessions on the basis that we have said we believe someone will be killed by this procedure. This incident highlights and vindicates exactly what the RMT have been loudly saying to Management

A section 15 Possession is solely about removing tried and tested protection methods for staff to access the track safely and replace it with a diluted possession that fails to address safety issues or cater for human error. It is purely about circumventing our Track Access Controllers who professionally record people working and trains through areas etc with what can only be described as a process more attune to writing it on the back of a fag packet

The RMT are sure that once again they will blame a worker, but the reality is that we have consistently warned this very event would occur. We believe LUL are fully and solely to blame for this mess and those that imposed this process should be held account for this near disaster.

The ‘system’ is not fit for purpose and now LUL have had a near miss, it is time to put our member’s life first and we call on LUL to scrap this ludicrous process and get back round the table with our Health and Safety Experts.

 

 

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RMT NATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER MEMBERS’ CONFERENCE 2016

TO: THE SECRETARY

ALL BRANCHES AND REGIONAL COUNCILS

 

Dear Colleague,

 

RMT NATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER MEMBERS’ CONFERENCE 2016

 

I am pleased to inform you that the 2016 National LGBT Members’ Conference will take place in Nottingham on Friday 13th (commencing at 2pm) and Saturday 14th May 2016 (concluding at 3pm).  The venue is the Ramada Nottingham City Centre, 19-21 Wollaton Street, Nottingham NG1 5FW.

 

Branches and Regional Councils are entitled to nominate a maximum of four delegates each. Nominations must be made on the attached form, which should be returned to Head Office by 15 April 2016. 

 

Branches and Regional Councils are also invited to submit motions for the agenda of the Conference which should be relevant to the concerns of LGBT members throughout the transport industry and must conform to Union policy. All motions must be received at Unity House by 15 April 2016 at the latest.  In addition to the above, invitations would be welcome from Branches and Regional Councils to host the 2017 Conference.

Branches and Regional Councils need to confirm with delegates that they are up to date with their subscriptions and what arrangements will be made towards their expenses before nominating.  A £35 per delegate payment is made to Branches, up to a maximum of seven, i.e. £245 per Branch per year, payable in respect of delegates to a Grades Conference or the RMT National Women’s; Young Members’; Health and Safety; Black and Ethnic Members’; or LGBT Members’ Conferences.

 

Should you have any queries please contact our Equal Opportunities Officer, Jess Webb, on j.webb@rmt.org.uk or t:020 7529 8821.

 

Yours sincerely,

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RMT NATIONAL BLACK & ETHNIC MINORITY MEMBERS’ CONFERENCE 2016

TO: THE SECRETARY

ALL BRANCHES AND REGIONAL COUNCILS

 

Dear Colleague,

 

RMT NATIONAL BLACK & ETHNIC MINORITY MEMBERS’ CONFERENCE 2016

 

I am pleased to inform you that the 2016 National Black and Ethnic Minority Members’ Conference will take place in Manchester on Monday 21 March (starting at 1pm) to Tuesday 22 March 2016 (concluding at 4pm). The venue is the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel, Portland Street, Manchester M1 4PH.

 

Branches and Regional Councils are entitled to nominate a maximum of four delegates each. Nominations must be made on the attached form, which should be returned to Head Office by 26 February 2016. 

 

Branches and Regional Councils are also invited to submit motions for the agenda of the Conference which should be relevant to the concerns of black and ethnic minority members throughout the transport industry and must conform to Union policy. All motions must be received at Unity House by 26 February 2016 at the latest.  In addition to the above, invitations would be welcome from Branches and Regional Councils to host the 2017 Conference.

 

Branches and Regional Councils need to confirm with delegates that they are up to date with their subscriptions and what arrangements will be made towards their expenses before nominating.  A £35 per delegate payment is made to Branches, up to a maximum of seven, i.e. £245 per Branch per year, payable in respect of delegates to a Grades Conference or the RMT National Women’s; Young Members’; Health and Safety; Black and Ethnic Members’; or LGBT Members’ Conferences.

 

Should you have any queries please contact our Equal Opportunities Officer, Jess Webb, on j.webb@rmt.org.uk or t:020 7529 8821.

 

Yours sincerely,

Mick Cash

General Secretary    

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RMT NATIONAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE 2016

RMT NATIONAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE 2016

 

I am pleased to inform you that the 2016 National Women’s Conference will take place in Scarborough on Friday 4th (starting at 1pm) and Saturday 5th March 2016 (concluding at 3pm). The venue is Scarborough Railway Social Club, Station Buildings, Scarborough YO11 1TN.

 

Branches and Regional Councils are entitled to nominate a maximum of four delegates each. Nominations must be made on the attached form, which should be returned to Head Office by 12 February 2016. 

 

Branches and Regional Councils are also invited to submit motions for the agenda of the Conference which should be relevant to the concerns of women throughout the transport industry and must conform to Union policy. All motions must be received at Unity House by 12 February 2016 at the latest.  In addition to the above, invitations would be welcome from Branches and Regional Councils to host the 2017 Conference.

Branches and Regional Councils need to confirm with delegates that they are up to date with their subscriptions and what arrangements will be made towards their expenses before nominating.  A £35 per delegate payment is made to Branches, up to a maximum of seven, i.e. £245 per Branch per year, payable in respect of delegates to a Grades Conference or the RMT National Women’s; Young Members’; Health and Safety; Black and Ethnic Members’; or LGBT Members’ Conferences.

 

I hope we can build on the success of this year’s conference, and our celebrations of 100 years of women in the union.  Should you have any queries please contact our Equal Opportunities Officer, Jess Webb, on j.webb@rmt.org.uk or t:020 7529 8821.

 

Yours sincerely,

Mick Cash

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Leytonstone Stabbing

RMT demands moratorium on station job cuts as union reveals that Leytonstone will lose half its rush hour staff in February

 

TUBE UNION RMT today demanded that London Underground halt its station job cuts programme as the union revealed that Leytonstone station, scene of Saturdays horrific knife attack, will lose half its rush hour staff from February under proposed new rosters. The Leytonstone cuts are part of an overall package from early next year which would strip 838 front-line, uniformed station staff out of the tube system.

 

Leytonstone currently has four station staff on duty during rush hour and London Underground plan to cut that to just two as part of their drive to reduce staff numbers.

 

Even worse, one of those two staff will be allocated to platform despatch duties meaning that only one person will be on station duty during the time of peak demand as opposed to three currently.

 

RMT has also challenged TFL claims that all staff have received updated briefings in light of the current security situation with the union saying that the briefings are “at best cursory and at worse non-existent.”

 

RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said:

 

“RMT is demanding that London Underground immediately halt the station staff job cuts programme and send out a clear signal that they are genuinely facing up to the current security threat that faces passengers and staff alike.

 

“Plans to halve the staff numbers at Leytonstone in February will shock passengers as they face up to the appalling events of the weekend. Those cuts are replicated across the tube network.

 

“RMT also challenges the claims that all staff have received updated and detailed security briefings as that is simply not matched up with the experience of our members.

 

“The union expects the moratorium on station staffing cuts to be implemented immediately and we will not be fobbed off with a whole load of meaningless rhetoric and political posturing at a time when we all need to be working together to address the current security alert across the transport network.”

 

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Blacklisting

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell MP is the confirmed speaker at the Blacklist Support Group parliamentary meeting

6pm Monday 7th December

Boothroyd Room

Portcullis House

Westminster

(turn left outside Westminster tube)

 

This parliamentary meeting takes place on the same day as the blacklisting group litigation involving around 700 blacklisted workers against 40 of the UK’s largest construction firms returns to the High Court in the first hearing since the companies admitted their guilt and apologised. This is also the first public event since the Blacklist Support Group and a number of blacklisted union activists were granted ‘core participant’ status in the Pitchford public inquiry into undercover policing.

John McDonnell was a founder member of the Blacklist Support Group and has spoken at numerous events organised by the justice campaign since 2009, this will be his first appearance on a blacklisting platform since his appointment as Shadow Chancellor by Jeremy Corbyn.

 

Also speaking at the event are:

 

Helen Steel – blacklisted environmental activist and one of the women activists who has recently won an apology from the Met Police for the abuse they suffered by undercover police officers.

 

Chris Stephens MP – SNP trade union coordinator in Westminster – will be speaking at the same time as the Scottish government is under pressure to call a public inquiry into undercover police spying on unions and social justice campaigns in Scotland.

 

John Hendy QC – the human rights lawyer who has been representing blacklisted workers for decades with cases lodged at the European Court of Human Rights

 

Scores of blacklisted workers will be present at the meeting for media photos and interviews.

 

Early morning photo opportunity:

9am – assemble outside the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand

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RMT response to Leytonstone stabbing incident

“RMT awaits the the full facts on this shocking incident and in the meantime the union  repeats it’s call for a London transport safety summit in light of the job cuts programme, the current security status and the intolerable pressure on staff and services.

” That summit should involve the unions, TFL, the BTP, the train companies and Network Rail. There can be no excuse for any further delays in bringing all parties together to address the security, staffing and safety issues currently confronting our transport services. “

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Section 15: Further Issues

It has come to light that following the trial of Section 15 that LUL have declared as successful, a whole further raft of issues were raised and ignored.

These included

  • Site Access Controllers at Northfields and Hatton Cross more often than not don’t have train radios or auto phones meaning that staff working at stations without phone reception on platforms must wait outside the station for their call that traction current is off and last train has departed. Leading to delays in starting work. This also means they aren’t contactable in an emergency if it should occur while in a line clear area.
  • Calls to and from Site Access Controllers are mobile phone calls and none of the safety critical messages are recorded.
  • SPC in work group is under no obligation to witness the passage of the last train or that the traction current has been discharged, just relies on an unrecorded message from Site Access Controller from Northfields or Hatton Cross that this has happened.
  • Driving to sites to sign in and out at Northfields and Hatton Cross isn’t environmentally friendly and means extra mileage plus wear and tear on vehicles.
  • A bulletin was sent that said “Section 15 is a possession protection method used during Engineering Hours that improves safety and increases the work time available on some shifts by up to 40 minutes”
  • From the list of issues above it cannot be seen how this has improved safety and from those staff involved, work time is actually significantly reduced not increased by up to 40 minutes. This is due to the time it takes to set up and remove possession and Site Access Controller to ring through the list of the SPC’s who have signed in.

Additionally, there have been further incidents raised via the Track Access Controllers

  • On Monday night 16th November we were made aware of an incident that allegedly took place in a Section 15 Possession.  POM had been granted access by SC only for support staff to find on site that traction current was still switched on; “Hatton cross to Heathrow, Both”.  If true this represents a fundamental failure of the key safety improvement “permissioning” promised by the introduction of this new procedure.
  • Monday night TAC denied access to a Train Master whose license to act in that role was out of date.   You may recall one of the TAC concerns raised about Section 15 was that SC and POM do not have the tools to check licenses are valid.  At the Tier 2 meeting on 10th September LUL told the RMT that all protection staff’s licenses are checked before being deployed to site.  Clearly that didn’t happen on Monday.  Had the Train Master been booked to work in a Section 15 Possession this would not have been detected.
  • Another concern was where Section 15 Possession limits were staggered, resulting in protection staff becoming confused about who to book on with at these locations.  Assurances were given future Possessions would have their limits aligned to prevent this happening.  This weekend there is a Section 15 Possession published:- both EB roads from Chiswick Park sub-gaps / LU boundary at Gunnersbury to Barons Court sub-gaps, then both local roads from Barons Court sub-gaps to Earls Court sub-gaps.  As a result half of the 4 tracking area is under Section 15 Possession, half in Engineering Hours.  Between Turnham Green and the Gunnersbury boundary, one road under POM’s control, the other belongs to TAC.  Worse still, a similar situation exists in the double track tunnel east of Earls Court.
  • Finally, in response to concerns that Section 15 could be used to replace EH protection, the TAC’s were told it was intended for major work packages. The Possession above is published to facilitate “point maintenance”.

The RMT is massively concerned about Section 15 Possessions and news on a ballot across LUL and Tubelines affected staff will be notified soon

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DLR Strikes

BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS – KEOLIS AMEY DOCKLANDS (DLR/14/2)

 

Further to my previous Circular (IR/261/15, 29th October 2015) and the solid strike action taken by KAD members between Tuesday 3rd and Thursday 5th November 2015, the DLR Branch met to discuss this dispute. Having noted a report received from the Lead Officer and the consensus of the DLR Branch meeting, the General Grades Committee has considered this matter and taken the decision to instruct all Docklands Light Railway members NOT TO BOOK ON FOR SHIFTS THAT COMMENCE BETWEEN:-

 

  • 03:59 hours on Monday 11th January 2016 until 03:59 hours on Tuesday 12th January 2016.
  • 03:59 hours on Wednesday 13th January 2016 until 03:59 hours on Thursday 14th January 2016.

 

  • 03:59 hours on Monday 8th February 2016 until 03:59 hours on Wednesday 10th February 2016.
  • 03:59 hours on Thursday 11th February 2016 until 03:59 hours on Friday 12th February 2016.

 

  • 03:59 hours on Monday 7th March 2016 until 03:59 hours on Wednesday 9th March 2016.
  • 03:59 hours on Thursday 10th March 2016 until 03:59 hours on Saturday 12th March 2016.

 

  • 03:59 hours on Monday 21st March 2016 until 03:59 hours on Friday 25th March 2016.
  • 03:59 hours on Tuesday 29th March 2016 until 03:59 hours on Saturday 2nd April 2016.

 

I am sure all members will show their support for our DLR colleagues in this ongoing dispute. As always, we remain available for talks with the Company to resolve this dispute and I will keep you informed of all developments.

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