The Nationwide Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Employees (RMT) launched two bits of reports this week, one good and one unhealthy – not less than from the angle of bars and the individuals who frequent them.
Excellent news first: The RMT has agreed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ with prepare working firms, which means industrial motion taken by overland prepare crews has been placed on maintain till not less than March 2024, whereas the assorted union memberships vote on a brand new proposal to finish the long-running dispute over pay and job safety. In a uncommon second of positivity, RMT basic secretary Mick Lynch mentioned: “This is a welcome improvement and our members will now resolve in an e-referendum whether or not they wish to settle for this new provide…”
Nevertheless, and in line with the precept that life offers with one hand and takes away with the opposite, RMT members yesterday voted to increase the union’s mandate for strike motion on the London Underground. Given industrial motion is designed to create as a lot disruption as potential with a view to apply strain to TFL’s negotiators, strikes will nearly actually be known as over the Christmas and New Yr vacation interval. Reverting to sort, Mick Lynch mentioned: “I congratulate our members on delivering one other spectacular Sure vote in our marketing campaign on pensions, jobs and dealing situations on London Underground… Our union will now think about the outcomes and the subsequent steps on this marketing campaign.”
In case you are fortunate sufficient to have Christmas off, it is possible for you to to journey by prepare to go and see your people, wherever they could be. However if you’re working in London, you in all probability received’t have the ability to get again to your flat with out paying for a surge-priced Uber or enduring an evening bus stuffed with workplace warriors and vomit.
You’ll find up-to-date strike data on the RMT web site.
