mayor of london - 25 Items Tagged Within News
Union leaders call on Mayor to bring Elizabeth Line and London Overground into public ownership
The letter comes in the wake of the newly elected Labour government's clear stance on the need to overhaul the UK’s railways, ending decades of privatisation.
RMT Mick Lynch, General Secretary, and Mick Whelan, General Secretary of ASLEF, highlighted...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Mick Lynch, ASLEF, Sadiq Khan, Mayor Of London, London Overground, Elizabeth Line
RMT demands TFL end outsourcing now
These vital workers, crucial to London's public transport, should be employed directly by TfL or its subsidiaries, the union has said.
Thousands of contracted out workers suffer from poor pay, no sick pay, inadequate pensions, and lack staff travel benefits.
...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Mick Lynch, TfL, Out Sourcing, City Hall, Mayor Of London, Sadiq Khan
Tube strike averted after progress made in dispute
Planned action from Monday to Thursday will no longer go ahead after RMT made progress in discussions with TfL today.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “Following further positive discussions today, the negotiations on a pay deal for our...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, London Underground, Tube, Strike, Mayor of London, TfL,
Tube strikes to go ahead after talks fail to make progress
The action will begin tonight at 6pm when maintenance train workers at Ruislip Depot will walk out for 24 hours.
Control staff will strike on Sunday for 24 hours and from Monday to Wednesday nearly 10,000 RMT members will strike across the...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Mick Lynch, Tube, Strike, London Underground, Transport for London, TfL, Mayor of London
RMT calls for talks over Tube strikes
The union had been invited to talks with TfL earlier this week after London Underground workers backed rolling strike action by over 90 per cent against a below inflation pay offer.
The union also wants to see full staff travel facilities...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Mick Lynch, Tube, Strike, London Underground, TfL, Mayor of London
Bring safety critical tube staff in-house
TUBE Union RMT is calling a protest tomorrow (June 8, 2023) outside London Town Hall in Newham to demand an end to the outsourcing of Safety Critical Track Protection Staff and bring Morson and Cleshar’s Framework workers in-house.
The union has written...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, Mick Lynch, London Underground, TfL, Mayor of London, Cleshars, Morson, track workers, Tube, LUL
Tube workers facing threats of violence.
RMT called on TfL to end its cuts programme, which is forcing repeated station closures across the network, opening staff up to abuse from frustrated passengers.
TfL has had its funding from central government dramatically cut but instead of...
Region: National
Tagged with: London Underground, LUL, Tube, TfL, Sadie Khan, Mayor of London, RMT, Mick Lynch
RMT wins staff free travel for 5,800 TfL cleaners
London Mayor Sadiq Khan today announced he will extend staff free travel to all sub-contracted cleaners who work on London’s transport system following years of campaigning by RMT.
The union had already won free travel for around 5,000 sub-contracted cleaners...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: RMT, London Underground, Cleaners, Mick Lynch, Tube, TfL, Sadie Khan, Mayor of London,
RMT writes to London Mayor over tube safety concerns
In a letter to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch highlights a series of incidents where stations have had less than the required staff and, in some cases, no staff at all.
Mr Lynch goes on...
Region: National
Tagged with: London Underground, Tube, LUL, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, RMT, Mick Lynch
Tube strike shuts London Underground
Trains have remained in depots across the network and RMT activists are reporting huge attendances at picket lines despite heavy rain across the capital.
600 station staff jobs will be lost if TfL (Transport for London) plans go through and RMT...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London Underground, LUL, Tube, TfL, Strike, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
RMT demands talks with the Mayor of London
RMT met with ACAS this week but London Underground Limited (LUL) were not interested in trying to settle the dispute.
LUL made it clear that not only were they not prepared to change tack and be prepared to compromise but...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London Underground, LUL, Tube, TfL, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Strike
4,000 station tube staff to walk out on June 6
General Secretary Mick Lynch said:"TfL is trying to bulldoze through 600 job losses on London Underground and our members are not prepared to accept that.
"Station staff play a crucial role in serving the travelling public and were heroes during the...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London Underground, Tube, LUL, TfL, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Job Cuts, Station Staff,
RMT on TfL cuts carnage
LONON TRANSPORT UNION RMT today called on the Mayor Sadiq Khan to stand up and fight for the Capital's transport services as the full scale of the cuts being demanded by the Government begins to emerge.
The union has also...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London Underground, Tube, LUL, TfL, Mayor of London, Cuts, Jobs, Pensions
RMT calls to scrap TfL cash for cuts scheme
TUBE UNION RMT has written to London Mayor Sadiq Khan calling on him to scrap Transport for London’s £12 million executive bonus scheme which will see senior staff rewarded for their success in delivering the government’s attack on heroic keyworkers’...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London Underground, Tube, LUL, TfL, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Pensions, Pay, Jobs
RMT on Night Tube plans
General Secretary Mick Lynch said: “No one has worked harder to ensure a safe environment for women on London Underground than the RMT. While Tube bosses have axed staff and left stations routinely unstaffed, with all of the obvious risks,...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London Underground, Night Tube, Tube, TfL, Mayor of London, LUL
RMT statement on TFL Financial Sustainability Plan
“This Financial Sustainability Plan is a massive missed opportunity and a capitulation to Tory austerity. TfL could have used this moment to aggressively make the case for setting its funding on a completely new basis, recognising the failure of fare...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: Transport for London, TfL, Financial Sustainability Plan, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, Covid-19, London Transport
RMT demands full disclosure of TFL Financial Sustainability Plan
As part of the deal made at the end of last year, Sadiq Khan agreed to submit to the DfT proposals for returning the body to ‘financial sustainability’ following the devastation of its finances by the Covid-19 pandemic. This plan...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: Transport for London, TfL, Financial Sustainability Plan, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, Covid-19, London Transport
RMT demands urgent action to protect TfL workers
TRANSPORT UNION RMT is demanding immediate action by Transport for London amid the surge in London’s cases of Covid infection and the rise of new variant Covid and the deaths of at least three TfL workers in recent days. The...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: Covid-19, TfL, Transport for London, London Underground, Tube, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
Tube outsourcing company profiteering whilst slashing jobs
TUBE UNION RMT today called on the Mayor of London to take back control of the Underground cleaning and put an end to the outdated dogma of outsourcing, after it emerged that the outsourcing company ABM has doubled its profits...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: Covid-19, Transport for London, TfL, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, ABM, Tube Cleaners
RMT demands that Mayor lift congestion charge from London lifeboat staff
RMT has written to both the Mayor and TFL boss Mike Brown requesting that the RNLI staff be exempt from the charges. The request has been turned down flat and the union is now ratcheting up the pressure as river...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: Covid-19, RNLI, TfL, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, Thames RNLI
Profits over service for London Overground
Detailed analysis by rail union RMT of the latest accounts for Arriva Rail London, the German state-owned company which operates London Overground and which is planning the wholesale butchery of ticket offices, reveal that the company more than doubled its...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London overground, ticket office, mayor of London, tfl, sadiq khan
RMT to begin ballot over Overground ticket offices
The union has been campaigning against plans to axe Overground ticket offices for the past two years and although the initial plans were pushed back the union has now accused ARL and TFL of trying to smuggle through a closure...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London overground, ticket office, mayor of London, tfl, sadiq khan
Campaign to halt Overground ticket office changes
RAIL UNION RMT is launching a new campaign to halt London Overground ticket office closures.
The campaign will fight London Overground’s plans to cut hours at 45 stations to the bare minimum and close the ticket offices altogether at Brondesbury,...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: London overground, ticket office, mayor of London, tfl, sadiq khan
RMT slams tube bosses for ignoring union crime warnings
Tube union RMT has slammed London Underground bosses for repeatedly ignoring warnings about the surge in crime on the tube as new figures issued today show that thefts on the network have risen by 80% in the past three years.
The...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: london underground, tube, tfl, crime, btp, sadiq khan, mayor of london, tfl
RMT calls for urgent meeting with Mayor Sadiq Khan
London's main transport union RMT today called for urgent talks with newly elected Mayor Sadiq Khan to discuss a wide range of issues that the union says pose the biggest collective threat to transport services in the Capital since the...
Region: National