JUSTICE FOR OUTSOURCED RAIL WORKERS

8 RMT members who are outsourced gateline and revenue workers employed by Carlisle Support Services on Northern Trains are among those campaigning for workplace justice around the issues of pay, conditions, pensions and equality. RMT general secretary Mick Lynch addressed a meeting of RMT’s Wigan branch to discuss the campaign at Northern Trains. “The scourge of outsourcing has already fuelled in-work poverty and eroded terms and conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers. “Many industries have used this model to get workers on the cheap and rail companies are now no exception and want to extend the use of agency workers over full time employed staff. “Where the subcontracting of cleaners and catering staff has been used it has driven down pay. “That is why cleaners are fighting back as a part of a national campaign already and we need to send a message to train operating companies that this model designed to create a cheap workforce is unacceptable to all of us,” he said. THE CAMPAIGN KEY DEMANDS ARE: • A £15 per hour minimum wage which in addition protects existing differentials. • Reform of the application of the ‘Time gate’ system that sees an end to members losing their hard- earned annual leave. • All contracts of employment to reflect the normal rostered hours, no more 336 hr per year contracts for non-casual employees. • All CSS staff on the NTL contract to receive equal leisure travel facilities on NTL as directly employed NTL staff. • All CSS staff on the NTL contract to receive a minimum of six weeks’ full sick pay, then six weeks’ half sick pay. • CSS to increase their employer contributions to the staff’s pension fund. If you are an outsourced worker employed by Carlisle Support Services, make sure you join RMT to become part of the campaign for justice and equality. www.rmt.org.uk/join JUSTICE: RMT general secretary Mick Lynch addresses Wigan branch about the campaign for outsourced CSS workers on Northern Trains JUSTICE FOR OUTSOURCED RAIL WORKERS Union launches national campaign for outsourced workers to end exploitation and get a fair deal ces c , e d F A I R D E A L F O R R A I L W O R K E R S