RETIRED MEMBERS REPORT

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: november/december 2020 :: RMTnews 29 2020 will not be remembered particularly well by pensioners and retired workers in Britain. We are still nearly at the bottom of the European league on pensions and nearly three million of us are living below the official poverty line. Our new government has reneged on TV License for the over 75s and women pensioners have been discriminated due to changes in retirement age. During this pandemic pensioners have also been shamefully treated by being released from hospitals to care homes without testing, leading to many deaths and we also need a Care Act that has been kicked into the long grass year after year. Despite this treatment RMT retired members have been campaigning on a Manifesto for Pensioners as we are only too aware that struggle is always required and advancement doesn’t come on a plate. Therefore we are active within the National Pensioners Convention and our local trade union movement bodies. Guest speakers included RMT general secretary Mick Cash and Rhys Harmer from RMT’s young members committee. Motions discussed and agreed on Isolation and Loneliness, support for Women Against State Pension Inequality, staffing of stations and trains and against the removal of printed timetables on all modes of transport. RETIRED MEMBERS REPORT Retired members advisory committee chair Tony Donaghey reports on a recent zoom conference