Campaigns

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.

RMT is calling on ScotRail operator Abellio and the Scottish Government to address a blatant pay inequality within the ScotRail workforce that has arisen from Abellio's refusal to negotiate an enhanced rest day working agreement for all grades of workers.

Network Rail are planning wholesale cuts to jobs and safety critical maintenance work by September.

With the range of serious issues facing our members at the moment, your union will be stepping up its campaign under the heading Transport workers are ESSENTIAL workers.

RMT is balloting its members over Stena Line’s offer to re-introduce a Company Sick Pay scheme of inferior value compared to the scheme the employer scrapped at the start of the pandemic.

London Underground cleaners are the unsung heroes of the pandemic in the capital. They’ve put their lives on the line every day, yet they are outsourced to a private company, ABM. They receive no company sick pay, no travel concessions and have an inferior pension scheme.

Nottingham City Council is proposing to cut £700,000 from the annual funding for the City’s Linkbus Network which is operated by the bus operator CT4N and serves a number of routes throughout Nottingham. The cuts will mean that a number of vital routes will be withdrawn or altered.

RMT is calling on the Secretary of State for Transport to urgently agree assistance for Eurostar, which, like other transport operators, has been significantly impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak, but which has not yet received any support from the UK Government.

Sign the RMT petition to protect catering jobs on South Western Railway

Keep staff and passengers safe

The government's plans to cut the Union Learning Fund in England means hundreds of thousands of workers will miss out on skills and training.

RMT is calling for Avanti West Coast to withdraw its proposals to relocate its Customer Resolution staff from Birmingham, around 90 miles to Sheffield, which put 60 jobs at risk of redundancy, and instead retain all jobs in Birmingham.

The RMT is calling on the Government to urgently agree an emergency financial support package for the open-access rail operators Grand Central and Hull Trains to enable them to stay viable during the Covid-19 crisis and to prevent job losses.

RMT is stepping up its fight to win full funding for Transport for London with the launch of an online petition.

RMT is stepping up the fight to halt an all-out assault on jobs and conditions at the US President's Scottish flagship golf resort that are being bulldozed through under the cover of the COVID-19 pandemic.

RMT calls for an end to outsourcing on the railways.

Fighting for all Bus Workers

Sign and share our petition or write to your MP and ask them to save P&O jobs.

Covid-19: In light of the Coronavirus outbreak RMT has released this downloadable infographic.

Covid-19: In light of the Coronavirus outbreak RMT has released this downloadable infographic.