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Hitachi Rail workers on the East Coast mainline contract launched a further round of strikes on 10 February.

They previously struck from 27 January-1 February. The new phase of action will see them strike for eight days discontinuously between 10 and 24 February. Workers are fighting for an...

London Underground Ltd. has made a new pay offer to our unions, details of which can be read in this RMT bulletin.

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Thousands of workers across London Underground and TfL are outsourced, meaning they are not employed directly by LUL or TfL but by private contractors. The biggest outsourced contract is cleaning, with...

Solidarity from Off The Rails to rail (and bus) workers in Northern Ireland who are striking today.

The UK government has used the pretext of the political stalemate to refuse to fund a pay rise. Now that stalemate is over - pay up!

Aslef drivers at multiple Train Operating Companies (TOCs) are striking again, one day each between 30 Jan and 5 Feb at different TOCs, and launching an overtime ban. Southeastern, Southern, Gatwick Express, South Western Railway, Great Northern and Thameslink drivers strike on Tuesday 30 January...

RMT members working as station staff, revenue staff, and security staff on London Overground will strike on 19-20 February and 4-5 March, as they seek to improve their pay and conditions.

Their employer, Arriva Rail London (ARL), has made a below-inflation pay offer, which workers have rejected...

RMT and Unite members working for Hitachi Rail on the LNER contract have been on strike since Saturday 27 January, with action due to conclude on 1 February.

LUL unions remain in negotiations with the company over how to distribute the £30 million of additional funding secured thanks to RMT's threatened week of action from 5-11 January.

RMT is recommending members working for Thales (GTS), a signalling and communications system contractor with numerous contracts on TfL/LUL, vote to accept the company's latest pay offer.

Last year, workers told their bosses a 5.5% offer for 2024 was not good enough. The new proposal adds a further...

The latest edition of our bulletin, collating content from our blog, is now online. Click here to download the PDF.

This edition reviews the recent developments in the LUL pay dispute, and discusses the implications for union organisation on the job. Plus, an update on the ABM cleaners' ballot, and...