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Further to Circular No. MF/131/14, 20^th November 2014 and Decision No. CEww December 2014, the Council of Executives have agreed the enclosed consultation document at the statutory meeting in December.

The consultation document follows consideration to responses received up to 27^th August 2014. The relevant documentation is also available on the Union’s website using the links below:

http://bit.ly/1kXxkU3    Circular MF/61/14 (with initial responses available to download as a PDF document).

http://bit.ly/1r0XDJd     Reponses received after 1^stNovember 2013 deadline.

http://bit.ly/1ymxxHI    Reponses received to 27^thAugust 2014.

http://bit.ly/1vmTgYY    Consultation Document – Council of Executives’ Report following the December 2014 Statutory Meeting.

Should your Branch require a hard copy of the documentation above, please contact the Personnel and Constitution Department on 020 7387 4771.

In order to encourage participation in the consultation, the Council of Executives have endorsed the recommendation for regional councils to hold joint meetings of branches to allow council of executive members or national officers to brief branch chairs and secretaries. As previously advised, please liaise with the respective officers and members of the executive committee when arranging your meeting date.

Branch and regional council responses to the council of executives’ consultation document should be submitted to this office by Tuesday 24^th February 2015 in order that they can be collated and presented to the executive committee at the Statutory Meeting in March 2015.

Yours sincerely

Mick Cash

General Secretary

LUEngineering Branch was proud to have the RMT General Secretary, Mick Cash, raise a glass to in remembrance to the sadly missed Bob Crow and Brian Munro prior to giving our branch members their long service awards. It has been a hard year for the union, but the loyalty shown by many of our members who attended to receive their awards shows the fighting spirit of our union is still going strong. There are actually 175 people due to receive a badge and the majority of the awards will be posted soon. However, it was nice to meet old friends and make new ones on what we hope was a night to remember for everyone.

John Reid would like to thank everyone for the massive support that he has so far received in his campaign to become the RMT Council of Executive Member (LT Region). He has already been supported by Branches representing the vast majority of members in our Region but now that needs to be turned into votes. He is getting excellent feedback and would like to thank those that have so far voted for him and would urge that everyone takes part in the democratic processes of our union. So if you haven’t voted so far then please send the form back asap

It has been brought to the attention of the branch that senior management figures (that are not members of the RMT) have a tendency to like to read our website to see what we are up to. It is quite straight forward really, we intend to build, organise and educate our members so that they can defend and hopefully exceed their pay and conditions. We intend to build on an idea of collective sense and bring collective bargaining rather than begging to the doors of all the employers in our sphere of influence. If you want to know if there are to be picket lines and industrial issues in your area, look in the mirror and reflect what type of employer you are, that will give you an idea of what the future may hold.

Our union is an Industrial Trade Union and here for and directed by our members, so please enjoy the website, but we will be adding far more into the members only area as time goes by

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It is with great please that we can announce that Brian Whitehead has been re-elected as Relief Regional Organiser (South) by a massive majority of over 4000.  Brian has said “I would like to thank everyone that voted for me and also thank the other candidates for making this an excellent campaign focused on issues that matter to our members”

The Branch will be proud to present it’s 10, 25 and 40 year awards to branch members on the 5th December at the Sir Christopher Hatton pub near Chancery Lane.

Mick Cash has agreed to present these awards at 17:30 and we look forward to seeing friends old and new for those that can attend.

Invites have gone out by post and email and should arrive within the next few days for those that are due to receive an award. If you believe you are entitled to an award and not received it, then just contact Paul Jackson at LUEngineering@rmt.org.uk

Following a stirring speech and question and answer session, the Branch attended by over 50 people choose to nominate Mick Lynch for the position of Assistant General Secretary. The branch would like to thank Alan Pottage, the other candidate that attended and gave a good show of himself.

We wish them all well and look forward to a good discussion on the issues facing our union and how we take these matters forward

Dear ALL

The RMT is holding an election for the position of Council of Executive Member for the LT Region. It is really import that people vote in any election, and this one in particular.

More information about John can be found at

https://www.luengineeringrmt.co.uk/causes/john-reid-for-lt-executive/

A branch leaflet for John is below:

John Reid

So ALL please VOTE ‘1’ FOR JOHN REID