Searchable article text
RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: may 2015 :: RMTnews 4 RMT members at Docklands Light Railway Keolis/Amey Docklands and contractor Interserve have voted for strike action over pay and working conditions in two separate disputes. RMT reps have been involved in extensive in talks with Keolis/Amey Docklands management regarding the 2015 pay review and other issues including the shifting of the pay anniversary date. Following a series of meetings, the company had failed to table a suitable pay offer and, having noted the views of both reps and members, the union has decided to ballot for strike action. The union is insisting that all DLR staff deserve to be rewarded for the hard work and commitment shown and that means receiving a pay award that increases wages in real terms as well as improvements to members’ terms and conditions. In a separate dispute, RMT also balloted staff on a contract awarded by Keolis/Amey Docklands to notorious anti- union facilities company Interserve. RMT reps have been in talks with Interserve management regarding a series of issues that remain unresolved and which sparked the ballot for strike action. The union is in dispute as members are sometimes not being paid correctly or not being paid at all. Members are also not receiving proper payslips or receiving set hours contracts of employment and rosters, which RMT was told would be given to staff three months ago. Members are also not receiving pay increases which maintain the differentials between grades. This is a long- standing claim from when the contract was with Carlisle Cleaning and Security. RMT general secretary Mick Cash said that the union now had a mandate from both the directly employed DLR staff and those hired in through Interserve to take action to win pay justice at the workplace. “The union will not sit back while core issues on pay and working conditions are left unresolved. “We have sent a clear message to management that staff are prepared to fight to demand decent rewards and recognition, a safe working environment, decent working conditions and will not be forced into accepting inferior pay arrangements from either KAD or their approved contractors,” he said. DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY STAFF BACK STRIKE ACTION Members working for Docklands and its contractors both overwhelmingly vote for industrial action