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RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: may/june 2012 :: RMTnews 27 FACEBOOK PAGE Dear editor, I started a Facebook page recently for all RMT branches to communicate with each other, called ‘RMT Page for all Branches Nationwide’, and it has really taken off with 223 members and counting thus far. Please would you look it up and give it some publicity in the next RMT magazine as we have a real opportunity to utilise this as a viable means of communication and encouraging people. This is an active page with many members from all over the UK wanting to achieve the same goal and your help would be appreciated. Yours Sincerely, Phil Jones RMT Company Council Representative NO ‘SNAIL MAIL’ Dear editor, I would like to take exception to the use of the phrase 'snail- mail' used in the information box on page 17 of the April newsletter. Is this a slight on our hard working postmen or the postal system in general? My father was a postman who retired eight years ago after 35 years’ service. He was also a proud member of the Communication Workers’ Union. The majority of failures in today's post office lie in its modern (mis)management and not in its hard working posties. It is also a reflection on modern life whereby people are no longer prepared to wait a day or two for a letter to arrive, they expect it now. So please don't demean other workers in RMT publications, leave that to the gutter press. Yours Sincerely, Gary Churchward, Exeter guard PEOPLE’S PLEDGE THANK YOU Dear editor, On behalf of all of us at the People’s Pledge campaign, I should like to thank Bob Crow, RMT and the No2EU campaign for helping us to achieve such a stunning result in our recent EU referendum campaign in Thurrock, Essex. Voters in Thurrock were the first in the country to be given the opportunity of voting as to whether they wanted a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. The results below demonstrate that an overwhelming majority of voters do want a referendum. In addition, the voting figures in a constituency with traditionally one of the lowest turn-out records in the country, demonstrates the genuine appeal of our campaign. It also shows that when people are given the opportunity to vote about issues they care about, they do so - and in large numbers. Numbers voting agree: 13,111 (89.9%) Numbers voting disagree: 1,479 (10.1%) Ballots cast: 14,590 Turn out: 30.39% Over ten thousand Thurrock voters also signed the pledge, further increasing the pressure on the sitting Tory MP and her Labour challenger. So, thank you for taking the time out to speak at the No2EU meeting in Thurrock, and for your own personal and continuing support for the pledge. The People’s Pledge is planning the next stage of the campaign to take place concurrently in three constituencies which we hope will include a new People’s Pledge trade union section. Clearly there are hundreds of thousands of trades unionists up and down the country, who believe as RMT does, that Britain should have a referendum on EU membership. Yours fraternally, Mark Seddon, People’s Pledge spokesman WATERLOO BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY BRIDGEND LLANTRISANT BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY NEWCASTLE GATESHEAD BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY BASSETLAW BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY WISHAW & MOTHERWELL BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY HOLYHEAD SHIPPING BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY CARLISLE BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY BAKERLOO LINE BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY BRIGHTON & HOVE DISTRICT BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY EAST KENT BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY WIRRAL BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY BRISTOL BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY PORTSMOUTH BRANCH NOMINATES PAT SIKORSKI FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY WILLESDEN RAIL BRANCH NOMINATES STEVE HEDLEY FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY TFL1 BRANCH NOMINATES STEVE HEDLEY FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY WILLESDEN ENGINEERING BRANCH NOMINATES STEVE HEDLEY FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY WIGAN BRANCH NOMINATES STEVE HEDLEY FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY SOUTH LONDON RAIL NOMINATES STEVE HEDLEY FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY WATFORD BRANCH NOMINATES STEVE HEDLEY FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY SWANSEA NO 1 BRANCH NOMINATES STEVE HEDLEY FOR ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY Letters...