Draft leaflet: RMT Reps on Stage 1 TUC Health & Safety Stage 1 Spring 2013
LUL Reps – RMT & ASLEF – Safety Charter Spring 2013
1. Bring all staff back in-house/ or bring key functions in house. Debating point – it allows for flexibility.
2. Improve standards & conditions: no cover ups/ Unions & Management must agree the standards to work to.
3. Bring all infrastructure back in house.
4. Ensure all health and safety Regulations are met.
5. Ensure training levels are met.
6. All costs of poor health and safety – accidents, illness, incidents (eg runaway train) – accountable and available.
7. Regular and full Inspections of assets and work practices.
8. Prioritise issues for improvements & Implement changes needed.
9. Open & honest communication: encourage people to report incidents & faults.
10. Review, adapt, improve.
Motion from the railway trade unions passed at TUC 2012
Composite motion C11 Action for Rail (extracts)
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Congress reaffirms its rejection of the flawed McNulty RailValue for Money report (summary) published in May 2011.
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Congress also rejects the government’s response to McNulty in its Command Paper published in March 2012 that has nothing positive to offer passengers or the industry’s workforce.
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These proposals include huge fare increases, more commercial freedom and longer contracts for private train operators, more fragmentation, the possible privatisation of infrastructure operator Network Rail and the loss of over 20,000 railway jobs.
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Congress reiterates its support for re-nationalisation of the railways. Congress believes that there is a real alternative based on a publicly owned, reunified rail industry that is run in the public interest and not for private profit that has seen the industry haemorrhage billions of pounds since privatisation.
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Congress particularly welcomes the ability to cut fares under the model proposed in Rebuilding Rail Final Report June 2012.
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Congress calls on the General Council to: continue to support Action for Rail and promote the campaign among the wider trade union movement.
Mover: Transport Salaried Staff Association
Seconder: Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Supporter: National Union for Rail Maritime and Transport Workers
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