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THREAD. Claire and I joined our friends @KeyWorkerPetUK last Wednesday in #London for #LongCovidAwaneressDay, travelling from all over the UK.
At great cost to us all health-wise, we did it because it was important. We started with a meeting @theRCN
At great cost to us all health-wise, we did it because it was important. We started with a meeting @theRCN
@theRCN, we were interviewed by @gemmamitchell92 of the @NursingTimes. Whilst @KeyWorkerPetUK gave an interview to @Channel5N, and @BethRigby of @BBCPanorama, Claire collapsed. 2/
I went outside to get a Black Cab, and we left at 13:00 to travel to @10DowningStreet where we were due to meet Layla Moran, @Debbie_abrahams, @AppgCoronavirus and others to deliver the @KeyWorkerPetUK and a copy of our book by @amibanerjee1 and the PPI group @ucl. 3/
🚨 #TubeStrike shuts London Underground
Over 10,000 @RMTunion members have today shut London Underground in a strike over pensions, job cuts and attacks on working conditions. 🧵
Over 10,000 @RMTunion members have today shut London Underground in a strike over pensions, job cuts and attacks on working conditions. 🧵
The job losses planned will affect every aspect of the tube including stations and maintenance, leading to the likelihood of more unstaffed stations and a lowering of safety standards.
General Secretary Mick Lynch said:
"Attacks on pensions, conditions and job losses will not be tolerated and the travelling public needs to understand that understaffed and unstaffed stations are unsafe."
"Attacks on pensions, conditions and job losses will not be tolerated and the travelling public needs to understand that understaffed and unstaffed stations are unsafe."
🚨 @RMTunion urges @MayorofLondon to change course ahead of #TubeStrike
Tube union, RMT wrote to Sadiq Khan today, urging him to reverse the managed decline of London Underground, to protect pensions, passenger safety and to halt job cuts 🧵
Tube union, RMT wrote to Sadiq Khan today, urging him to reverse the managed decline of London Underground, to protect pensions, passenger safety and to halt job cuts 🧵
Over 10,000 @RMTunion members will be taking strike action across the tube tomorrow shutting down London Underground.
🗣️ In his letter to the London Mayor, @RMTunion general secretary Mick Lynch writes:
"I urge you once again to act on this understanding and rule out the implementation of detrimental pension changes to the TfL pension..."
"I urge you once again to act on this understanding and rule out the implementation of detrimental pension changes to the TfL pension..."
Quick thread on today’s #TubeStrike, from an @RMTLondon rep (I’m not directly involved in the dispute, as I work on stations, but I’m in full support of my train operator comrades)…
The basic issues in the dispute are simple. When Night Tube was first proposed, LU said existing staff would work the night shifts. We (drivers, station staff, and others) said… no thanks. We struck, and won an agreement…
…which said LU would recruit a dedicated workforce on stations and trains to work Night Tube. That agreement was explicit that drivers would not have to work nights or additional weekends. LU is now ripping that agreement up, by abolishing the Night Tube driver grade.
