Campaigns

After the Government takes ownership of Northern Rail on 1 March 2020 it must commit to keeping Northern Rail in the public sector. There must be no return to private sector failure. Keeping Northern in the public sector will ensure an affordable, reliable and accessible railway for the North.

Station staff play a vital role in helping deliver a safe, secure and accessible railway. But government and train companies are cutting station staff, de-staffing stations and closing tickets offices. This threatens passenger service and safety, especially at a time of rising crime on the railway.

Arriva Rail North has contracted out the work of staffing at many of its stations to an outsourcing company called Carlisle Security Services Ltd. These workers are earning less than the Real Living Wage of £9 an hour.

London Underground cleaners receive no company sick pay, travel concessions and have an inferior pension scheme. Let Sadiq Khan know you want workplace justice for Tube cleaners.

Abellio, which operates the Greater Anglia rail franchise is proposing to reduce the catering provision on its service between Norwich and London Liverpool Street.

Over 7,000 UK Ratings working in the shipping industry today are not in the RMT. The majority of these non-members are employed in the ferries sector. The union has set a target of increasing RMT membership amongst UK Ratings to 10,000. To achieve this we must start by building toward 100% membership amongst...

Provide passengers on the GWR route with a proper catering service by reinstating the buffet car in all new Intercity Express Trains from which it has been removed.

London Overground is planning to cut ticket office hours at 45 stations.

C2C is consulting on proposals to reduce ticket office opening hours at 25 stations across the network, which would leave many ticket offices closed for large parts of the day and closed altogether at the weekends at some stations. Many of the ticket offices are facing cuts in excess of 9 hours...

The campaign will focus on five key areas to: * Save Our Services * Save Our Guards * Save Our Station Staff * Save Our Engineers * Save Our Cleaning & Maintenance teams

Merchant Navy Ratings and Officers employed on Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ships play an essential part in protecting the UK’s strategic and security interests, yet they have suffered a decade of pay cuts.

Please take a couple of minutes to help in the fight for an accessible railway. Staff our Stations. A Guard on every train. Please act by 15 February, 2019.

At the moment you are guaranteed the protection of a safety critical train Guard on your train.

The union is stepping up the fight for the future of our seafarers with the new campaign SOS2020. The year 2020 was selected as this is when thousands of the UK ratings working today will retire and the government cannot let the industry get away with engineering the extinction of UK...

Southern Trains plan to make their trains Driver Only Operation - RMT says Keep the Guard on the Train

Keep the Guard on the Train. Please let Merseytravel know that you want to keep Guards on the train.

Taxis – Protecting the industry and passengers. Need for statutory definition of “Plying for Hire”

The people who clean stations for Network Rail, doing some of the dirtiest work in the rail industry, are currently paid below the real Living Wage.

In January 2015 RMT launched the Maritime Manifesto.

Join the RMT campaign to stop the disgusting dumping of human effluence directly on to the railway tracks where it can be sprayed onto railway maintenance workers.