September 2022
REGIONAL NEWSLETTER
Issue 5
CONTACT US: Your North East Regional Council can be contacted at N69a2e@rmt.org.uk
North East Region CONTINUING TO DEFEND RAIL JOBS, CONDITIONS AND PAY
The North East Regional Council and Branches within the Region are responsible for supporting and facilitating representatives and members in achieving our collective desired outcome. The Region is aware that industrial action will have a financial impact on members and acknowledges that this will impact on some grades and members more than others, due to the different pay cycles and rosters. Industrial action is always a last resort, but we cannot sit back and see our industry destroyed: we must stand up and fight. The National Executive wisely took the decision not to also impose action short of a strike alongside the strike action. The region acknowledges that in a major dispute such as this there will always be differences of opinions on what the right course of action is and that the National Executive will ensure that all views are taken into consideration before calling strike dates. It is therefore imperative that members ensure that their views are relayed to their Company Council representatives who are required to feed these into National Executive. Additionally members should be attending their Branch Meetings; here, they can raise their concerns and these can be fed back to our North East National Executive member. An example of this is the resolution submitted by the York & District Branch in relation to taking joint industrial action with ASLEF, which members at York opposed.