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."
🚨 | BREAKING @RMTunion report reveals Fat Cat rail bosses award themselves eye watering annual pay hikes while lecturing rail workers on need for pay restraint and reform. #RailStrike 🧵
On the day that workers take strike action in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and railway services new RMT research has revealed that bosses at 7 rail companies have awarded themselves annual pay rises of between 15- 275% whilst workers have been subject to a pay freeze
At @FirstGroupplc, whose train companies include failing @AvantiWestCoast and @TPExpressTrains, the remuneration of the Chief Financial Officer and CEO increased by an eyewatering 275% and 168% in one year.
No More P&O's:
🗣️ Mick Lynch "everyone was outraged by P&O but nothing has come up to punish them or to protect our people."
No More P&O's:
Mick Lynch "This government is in bed with the oligarchs in the Middle East and we can't let it stand."
No More P&O's:
Mick Lynch " @POferries is one of the symptoms of what's gone wrong in this country. We have a corrupt government that is determined to make workers poorer and the rich richer."
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..."
🚨 @RMTunion kick off week of action ahead of P&O scandal anniversary:
Maritime union RMT will launch a week of action on Tuesday marking the first anniversary of the @POferries scandal last year 🧵
786 UK seafarers lost their jobs in an unprecedented and unlawful move, by @DP_World who own @POferries on March 17 2022.
Staff were informed via Teams they had lost their jobs, escorted off ships by masked security guards and immediately replaced with international agency crew.
🗣️ @RMTunion general secretary Mick Lynch said: "It is a national disgrace that the government has taken no concrete action to punish this rogue company DP World for unlawfully sacking 786 seafarers last year."
🚨 Train company pandemic profits top £300 million and set to reach £400 million by September:
If reinvested back into the rail industry, £310 million would have been enough to fund a 10.6% pay rise for the Train Operating Companies’ staff 🧵 #SupportRailWorkers
Private Train Operating Companies at the heart of the long-running rail dispute have made more than £300 million in profits since the government put them on new contracts when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, @RMTunion research reveals. issuu.com/rmtunion/docs/…
While rail workers have had their pay frozen in the same period, DfT data shows that the private train operators made £310 million in taxpayer-funded profits between March 2020 and September 2022. By September this year, that figure will be in excess of £400 million.
Mick Lynch has today written to all MPs with Avanti operating in their constituency and to Metro mayors @AndyBurnhamGM and @MetroMayorSteve Rotheram with a briefing on @AvantiWestCoast and its misleading claims. 🧵
Recently, @AvantiWestCoast told Parliament “We had no problem at all before July” – But this is untrue. The ORR data shows they had a growing problem across 2022, predating July.