KEEPING UP THE PRESSURE!

It is absolutely crucial that you all return a resounding YES vote for further industrial action

This country’s anti-trade union laws requires that your union ballots members in train operating companies to continue the mandate to take industrial action in defence of jobs, pay and conditions.

Members working in all grades for the train operating companies will have received a ballot paper earlier this month so if you haven’t voted yet filled it in it is imperative that you return it before May 4.

To re-cap the offer from the Rail Delivery Group on behalf of the TOCs which led to the strikes being suspended last month offered a pay increase for 2022 that is dependent on the Dispute Resolution Process document being adopted by your union. The national executive committee decided to distribute that document to the membership and a presentation on its contents has been broadcast and is still available to watch on the union’s YouTube channel. The video deals with the main questions raised by members and has received many thousands of views already.

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said that a conversation needed to take place within the union around the twostage offer.

“It has been frustrating to be in negotiations when the