Train managers in the RMT and TSSA transport unions at Eurostar have voted overwhelmingly to strike after the company imposed new rosters. This breaches an agreement that requires new shift patterns to be negotiated and approved by union reps.
The campaign by the RMT transport union against the victimisation of Andy Littlechild, a union rep at the Metronet maintenance company, has forced management into a climbdown.
Effective strike action last week by 450 rail signallers and signal supervisors in the RMT transport union in Scotland has won serious gains from their Network Rail employer. The workers were angry at the company’s plans to impose roster changes at short notice.
Around 450 rail signallers and signal supervisors in the RMT transport union began the first of two 24-hour strikes at 12 noon on Tuesday of this week.
Around 2,500 members of the RMT transport union at the Metronet tube infrastructure company are to ballot for action over the victimisation of a union rep, plans to reduce signals maintenance and attempts to impose rosters.
Two separate strikes set for Monday and Tuesday of this week involving members of the RMT transport union at Southeastern Trains were called off for different reasons.
Cleaners on London Underground in the RMT union are continuing their fight for a London Living Wage of £7.45 an hour and against the suspension of a number of workers over their national insurance numbers.
Metronet, the failed tube maintenance consortium that was taken into administration last year, has suspended Andy Littlechild, the RMT union representative for Metronet Rail Infrastructure Services (MRIS).
Around 1,250 members of the RMT transport union at Southeastern Trains are set to strike for 48 hours on Monday and Tuesday of next week in two separate industrial disputes.
A packed fringe meeting organised by the RMT transport workers’ union saw Tony Benn, Unite's Irish regional secretary Jimmy Kelly and the RMT’s Bob Crow speak against the neoliberal drive in the European Union (EU).
I was an activist from a young age. As a student in Nigeria I was secretary of the national students' organisation in my university. I had a political background - I lived with a political uncle and he was my inspiration.
