RAIL UNION RMT announced today that it is to ballot a group of signalling staff in the Wales and the Marches Operations area for strike action and action short of strike action over the imposition of rosters at the new South Wales Control Centre due to open in January 2010.
TUBE AND TfL union RMT will be holding a demonstration in support of London Underground cleaners fight against privatisation this Wednesday (18 November) as it emerged that senior TfL bosses have received a 50% increase in bonus payments over the past two years from £3.6 million in 2007 to £5.3 million this year.
RAIL UNION RMT claimed today that the return to public ownership of the East Coast Main Line at one minute to midnight tonight (Friday 13th November) marks the beginning of the end for the disastrous policy of rail privatisation in the UK.
RAIL UNION RMT today pledged to fight plans which could potentially lead to the loss of 1600 jobs at the Glasgow-based rail division of engineering giant Babcock International.
TUBE UNION RMT revealed today that a total communications and systems failure on the Jubilee Line for nearly an hour during the busy early evening period last Friday evening - 4th November - has exposed the lethal danger of Mayor Boris Johnson and TFL's plans to bring in driverless trains.
RAIL UNION RMT confirmed today that cleaners working for the Carlisle Group on the Virgin West Coast Mainline have won a pay increase of 10% along with further improvements in benefits, allowances and working conditions.
RAIL UNION RMT today called on the government to take back the London Midland rail franchise from the parent Govia group after the company was hit with a remedial notice for persistent poor performance and failure to deliver an acceptable quality of service.
MARTIME UNION RMT today pledged an all out fight to block plans to privatise the Royal Fleet Auxiliary - the navy's lifeline delivering fuel, food stores and ammunition - after it emerged today that pressure from Treasury officials had forced the Ministry of Defence to consider handing the RFA over to private companies, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
NEW RESEARCH by rail union RMT has revealed that nearly half of the maintenance job cuts planned by Network Rail are targeted at the West Coast Main Line, a franchise operated by Virgin Trains and the busiest rail corridor on the entire UK system.
In an important initiative aimed at shifting the political debate away from the cuts and pro-business agenda of the three main parties, transport union RMT is convening a conference on the 'Crisis in Working Class Representation' in London this Saturday (7th November).