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The RMT National Executive Committee has recently taken a decision that sets the union up for a campaign across Network Rail and the majority of Train Operating Companies to defend your pay, jobs, conditions and pensions.

RMT pledges to fight plans to cut ticket office hours at 120 ScotRail stations and warns that cuts will create a “muggers paradise” across the network

Justice for Cleaners – Fight for £15

The train company LNER is consulting on proposals to reduce the ticket office opening hours at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Darlington; Doncaster; Durham; Edinburgh; Grantham; London King's Cross; Newark North Gate; Newcastle; Peterborough; Retford; Wakefield Westgate and York train stations.

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.

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...

Campaign for Offshore workers

Repository for Maritime Mental Health resources

London’s public transport system desperately needs a proper funding settlement from the government - but instead, they are attacking it: threatening cuts to services, fare rises, and attacks on the TfL key workers who risked their lives to keep London on its feet during the pandemic.

Information from RMT on maritime pensions

Professional staff deserve professional wages

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

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.

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.

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.

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

RMT calls for an end to outsourcing on the railways.

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

Fighting for all Bus Workers

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

RMT is calling for Abellio ScotRail's proposals to cut 12% of services, or around 100,000 a year, to be withdrawn and for the Scottish Government to commit to protecting ScotRail services.

RMT is an active member of the TUCG which brings together like-minded unions to coordinate campaigns in Westminster and beyond.

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.

In January 2015 RMT launched the Maritime Manifesto.

Campaign to restore the the stand alone, specialist Offshore Safety Division (OSD) of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

If you wear a uniform to work and wash it yourself you may be entitled to claim a tax rebate.

RMT, GMB and Unite strongly oppose the 3 new clauses in the deregulation bill relating to taxis.

RMT recently commissioned Buses Matter - a report by the Campaign for Better Transport - and made its own final submission to the Transport Select Committe inquiry into the industry.

RMT Policy Briefing

Join the RMT campaign to restore travel facilities for all rail staff

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

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

Support the campaign to reduce bus drivers hours

Support the RMT campaign to restore the operational subsidy for London Underground

Yet another hike in rail fares has been announced.

Keep the Personal Injury Small Claims Limit at £1,000/ Keep Damages for whiplash - sign the petition

If you wear a uniform to work and wash it yourself you may be entitled to claim a tax rebate.

If you wear a uniform to work and wash it yourself you may be entitled to claim a tax rebate.

If you wear a uniform to work and wash it yourself you may be entitled to claim a tax rebate.

If you wear a uniform to work and wash it yourself you may be entitled to claim a tax rebate.