Balloting and Talking

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RMT members have received a letter from the union promising that we will receive a ballot paper 'shortly'. About time too!

While the union has taken literally months preparing this ballot, LU management have ploughed full steam ahead with their job cuts. They are freezing vacancies, stopping movements, issuing preference forms, drafting new rosters, and going through the motions of 'consulting' unions which are part-paralysed by their failure so far to ballot for action.

Reports of 'talks' show management totally ignoring workers' concerns as expressed by our union reps. The simple fact is that management are not interested in our objections to thei job cuts - the only reason they have meetings with unions at all is that they have to, under both the law and their own policies. But they don't have to take any notice of what is said - unless we make them.

Once the ballots start - and then when we get a resounding Yes vote, and then when we strike - the whole nature of the talks will change. The union side of the table will be much stronger, and the management side much less able to ignore us.

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