Letters

LNER Scotland Service Cuts Consultation

Please take the time to take part in the consultation to oppose proposals to reduce LNER services to/from Stirling, Falkirk Grahamston, Glasgow Central and Motherwell, and to urge LNER to withdraw the proposals.

Keep Cash on Avanti Catering

Avanti West Coast plans to scrap cash to pay for its on-board catering. Please write to your MP to oppose these plans.

Write to Mayor of London to bring Tube cleaners in-house

Write to Mayor of London to urge him to commit to bringing London Underground’s cleaners in-house

LIFEBOAT INCIDENT – P&O FERRIES PIONEER WRITE TO YOUR MP

Letter to MP's about the loss of a lifeboat from P&O Pioneer.

Withdrawal of Advance Purchase on Departure tickets write to your MP

Northern Trains tickets

Pay Justice for Churchill Cleaners - Write to your MP

Write to your MP and demand pay justice for Churchill cleaners.

Paying more, for less write to your MP

Sign our petition and write to your MP to demand fair fares and a properly funded railway that protects rail services, staffing and the climate.

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Passenger watchdog Transport Focus is holding a public consultation about ScotRail’s proposed cuts to ticket office hours until 2nd February 2022

ScotRail ticket office consultation

Passenger watchdog Transport Focus is holding a public consultation about ScotRail’s proposed cuts to ticket office hours until 2nd February 2022

Tell your MP to stop the cuts to South Western Railway Services

Save London's Public Transport letter to PM

Letter to the Prime Minister concerning London Transport

Save London's Transport letter to MP

Help us by writing to your London MP and asking them to write to the Prime Minister seeking a proper funding deal for London’s public transport system. You can use the model text below and remember the following tips:

Cleaners are Essential - Rail Industry MP Letter

As part of our ‘Cleaners Are Essential’ campaign, RMT is pressing the rail industry and Transport for London to end the outsourcing of cleaning.

Cleaners are Essential - TfL MP Letter

As part of our ‘Cleaners Are Essential’ campaign, RMT is pressing the rail industry and Transport for London to end the outsourcing of cleaning.

Stena Line Pay Dispute

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.

Nottingham Linkbus Network Consultation

Response to Nottingham City Council’s Consultation on Proposed Changes to the Linkbus Network

Keep Catering on South Western Railway - Write to your MP

Help RMT to protect catering services and jobs on South Western Railway by writing or emailing your MP

Supporting the open-access rail sector during Covid-19

Please contact your MP, and ask them to support the campaign, and to sign Early Day Motion 965.

Write To Your MP About Protecting Bus Workers During Covid-19

Letter to MP's asking for adequate PPE be provided during Covid-19

Save P&O Jobs - Write to your MP

Write to your MP and ask them to support the RMT trade union’s campaign against P&O Ferries’ plans to use taxpayers’ money to make 1,100 redundancies mainly amongst British seafarers in the ports of Dover and Hull.

Protecting maritime employment and skills for the future

Seafarer access to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Please contact your MP using the template letter to ask that they support RMT’s efforts to make sure that seafarers are eligible for full support from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Keep Northern Public letter to MP's

Please contact your MP and ask them to sign early Day Motion 172 and urge them to Keep Northern Public

End privatisation of cleaning on London Underground and London Overground

Model letter response

SOS - Staff Our Stations Letter

Station staff play a vital role in helping deliver a safe, secure and accessible railway. Write to your MP asking them to support the Staff Our Stations (SOS) campaign which opposes these cuts and promotes the benefits of fully staffed stations.

Justice For Tube Cleaners Letter

Please help us by writing or emailing the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, asking him to step in and ensure justice for cleaners.

London TravelWatch letter c2c ticket offices

Please use this letter to contact London TravelWatch if you are concerned about changes to ticket offices at Barking, Chafford Hundred, Dagenham Dock, Fenchurch Street, Grays, Limehouse, Ockendon, Purfleet, Rainham, Upminster.

Transport Focus letter c2c ticket offices

Contact Transport Focus about changes to ticket offices at Basildon, Benfleet, Chalkwell, East Tilbury, Laindon, Leigh-on-Sea, Pitsea, Shoeburyness, Southend Central, Southend East, Stanford-le-Hope, Thorpe Bay, Tilbury Town, West Horndon, Westcliff.

SEND Cuts

Seeking MP's views on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) funding

Stop the cuts to London Overground ticket offices

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

Pay the Living Wage to Mitie Cleaners NOW

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. Email the CEO of Mitie Group, Phil Bentley, and ask him to get round the table with RMT.

RMT drop-in briefing ‘Fair Pay for RFA’ Wednesday 17 July, 2.30-4pm Room U, PCH

Please write to your MP to ask that they attend the briefing session that the RMT is holding for MPs on the current pay dispute with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA).

Valuing Safe & Secure Taxis MP Letter

Write to your MP and ask them to sign the Early Day Motion 2456

Defend Tube Safety Letter

Write to your MP and demand that the operational subsidy for Transport for London is restored.

Bus driver hours letter

Write to your MP here asking them to support the campaign over bus driver hours

Travel facilities for rail staff letter

Write to your MP to ask that all rail staff have full travel facilities restored

Fair pay at RFA letter to MP's

Write to your MP asking them to support the Fair Pay for RFA campaign which calls for civilian seafarers in the RFA to be awarded a fair pay increase.

Disabled People's Protection Policy Consultation

The Office of Road and Rail (ORR) is responsible for protecting and improving railway access. It is consulting on what should be in its future guidance for the “Disabled People's Protection Policy” that each train company is required to hold.

Planned closure of YOUR London Overground ticket office

Arriva Rail London intend to close ticket offices at 51 London Overground stations. Please email London TravelWatch and let them know how you value the ticket office at your station.

Planned closure of ticket offices at 51 Overground stations

Arriva Rail London intend to close ticket offices at 51 London Overground stations. Please email London TravelWatch and let them know how you value the ticket office and wish them to remain open.

Cut Fares, Not Staff - Contact your MP

Contact your MP and demand cheaper rail fares

Poor Performance on Northern Rail Services EDM 1240

Contact your MP and ask them to sign EDM 1240 asking the Government to consider bringing the Arriva Rail North franchise back into public hands.

Minimum Wage for all Seafarers letter

Letter to MP's regarding extending national minimum wage to all seafarers

Arriva Rail North

Write to your MP and urge them to keep the Guard on Arriva Rail North.

Merseytravel - EDM112

Ask your MP to sign EDM112 to help keep the guard on Merseyrail trains.

Guard Guarantee - Write to your MP

Are opposed to proposals to remove the guarantee of a Guard on Northern rail services? Please write to your MP and ask them to protect the role of the guard.

PLEASE SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN TO GUARANTEE A GUARD ON TRAINS

Oppose Driver Only Trains by responding to the government Draft Accessibility Action Plan consultation before 15th November 2017

GWR Cleaners Sick Pay

Contract cleaners on the GWR franchise currently receive no sick pay when they are ill. Please write to GWR Managing Director Mark Hopwood and tell him this is unacceptable.

Personal Injury Claims - Write to your MP

Write to your MP and tell them that you are against the proposed increase to the Small Claims limit.

No to Driver Only Operation on Southern Trains

Letter to MP's asking them to tell Southern GTR to Keep the Guard on the Train.

Taxis – Protecting the industry and passengers: EDM 587

Support for statutory definition of “Plying for Hire” is building. Help your fellow transport workers keep up the pressure.

Early Day Motion 349

Ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 349 to keep the guard on ScotRail

GTR ticket office changes - Transport Focus

To raise your concerns about the proposed closure of ticket offices.

GTR ticket office changes - London TravelWatch

To raise your concerns at the proposed closure of ticket offices.

Keep CalMac Public

Please let your MP know that you support keeping lifeline Scottish ferry services in the public sector.

Merseyrail - Keep the Guard on the Train

Silverlink Ticket Office Closures letter

Please raise your concerns with the passenger body London Travelwatch about the proposed closure of ticket offices on the old "Silverlink" line stations by writing or emailing them before Wednesday 3 February 2016.

Early Day Motion 142

PASSENGER SAFETY AND PRIVATE HIRE INDUSTRY REGULATION

Right to Strike - Early Day Motion 802

Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, proposed anti-trade union legislation, which he claims will be included in the Tory election manifesto, in an article in the Telegraph on 9th January.

Early Day Motion 762: Plying for Hire

Please urge your MP to sign EDM 762 to create a statutory definition of the term 'Plying for Hire'.

Intercity Express - Early Day Motion 584

Write to MP and ask them to sign Early Day Motion 584 condemning the proposal to cut staff, introduce Driver Only Operation and scrap the buffet car.

Petrit Mihaj v Sodexo

Support campaign to highlight treatment of RMT rep

ILO CONVENTION ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AT WORK

Globally one in three women will be beaten or sexually abused in their lifetime and this occurs everywhere, even at the workplace. Please contact your MP and ask them to sign the Early Day Motion which calls for this new ILO Convention:

Northern & TPE franchise Lobby of Parliament: Email your MP

The Government’s proposals for the future of the Northern and TransPennine Express rail franchises will result in cuts to funding, fare rises, service and timetable cuts and the loss of hundreds of essential rail jobs.

Northern & TransPennine Express Rail Franchise

The Government’s proposals for the future of the Northern and Transpennine Express rail franchises will result in cuts to funding, fare rises, service and timetable cuts and the loss of hundreds of essential rail jobs.

TfL Performance pay dispute and industrial action by RMT, TSSA, and Unite

Lobby the TfL Board of Directors

Stop Taxi Deregulation by the Back Door

RMT, GMB and Unite strongly oppose the 3 new clauses in the deregulation bill relating to taxis. Please contact your MP to express your dissatisfaction.

Every Job Matters - Email Mike Brown

Email Mike Brown, Transport for London Chief Executive, and let him know that you want staff on London Underground and that the closing of ticket offices is unacceptable.

Training for UK Seafarers

Your union is campaigning for employment and training benefits for UK seafarers from the Tonnage Tax.

Early Day Motion 787 - London Underground Ticket Offices

Write to your MP to express your concern at the proposal to close all London Underground ticket offices.

Every Job Matters - Defending Jobs on London Underground

Email the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and let him know that you want staff on London Underground.

Email to Mitie

You can support us by letting Mitie bosses know how you feel about the treatment of their workers.

Email to First Great Western

You can support us by letting First Great Western bosses know how you feel about the treatment of their workers.

Keep our Guards on London Overground

Transport for London want to remove guards from your London Overground trains. You can email, or write, to Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, to ask him to put a stop to it.

Offshore Safety Division (OSD) of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

Please ask your own MP to sign this Early Day Motion if they have not already added their name.

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