RMT's Got Talent
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12/03/2015 - 19:30
Performances from RMT members to raise funds for our strike fund and for Rainbow International LGBT Solidarity Fund.
Leytonstone ex-Services Club, Harvey Road, E11.
Trade unions
Workers' self-defence starts with getting unionised at work. This section includes material on the trade union struggles and issues I am involved in and/or urge you to support!
ETF Women's Committee, March 2015
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04/03/2015 - 09:00
Meeting in Brussels, the European Transport Workers' Federation Women's Committee will share information and reports from women trade unionists across Europe's countries and transport sectors, and agree on a publicity campaign to tackle violence against women transport workers - it's not part of the job!
Check back after the event for Janine's report.
CWU Disability Conference 2014: 'Autism in the workplace' speech
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On 11 October 2014, I was the guest speaker at the Disability Conference of the Communication Workers' Union (CWU), held in Leeds. I addressed the conference about Autism in the Workplace, and got great feedback from delegates!
TUC Disabled Workers Committee
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27/11/2014 - 11:00
Poetry Performance: RMT 'End Violence Against Women' event
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Tuesday 25 November 2014 was the annual, international Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls. RMT women held an event in London with speakers including a Kurdish campaigner, Unison women's committee chair, the International Transport Workers' Federation and the RMT National President. Around fifty people attended the event, and I was elased to be able to contribute by performing three of my poems on the theme of violence against women.
Conference: The People vs PFI
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01/11/2014 - 09:00
I will be "giving evidence" about the disastrous Public-Private Partnership on London Underground at this conference, and selling copies of my book Plundering London Underground: private capital and public service 1997-2010
For more information about the event, click here.
TUC Congress blog 2005
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I attended TUC Congress 2005 as an RMT delegate - and blogged! Here are the links to my posts:
Local Trade Unionists Slam East London Line Privatisation Plan
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Press release from Hackney Trade Union Council, 6 January 2004
London Underground has revealed that when the East London Line is extended into Hackney, it will not be a Tube line, but a privatised, mainline service.
Report: TUC Disabled Workers' Committee meeting, 16 September 2014
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The TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee elected two co-Chairs for 2014/15: Sean McGovern and Janine Booth.
Disabled Workers’ Conference 2014 - Resolutions
Thumbs Down To Fingerprinting
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London Underground cleaners are refusing to use new biometric machines to book on for work, seeing this as a threat to their civil liberties.
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