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Paul Yarwood - the RMT responds.

September 22, 2007 on 11:25 pm | In One Railway, RMT |

Dear Colleagues

MANAGEMENT NEGLECT OF STAFF SAFETY – ‘one’

Further to my correspondence in relation to the sacking of Paul Yarwood I can now advise you there have been developments in this matter which has led to the settlement of this dispute.

I am pleased to inform you that management has offered a settlement satisfactory to Brother Yarwood and following consultations, the General Grades Committee has decided to accept the offer. Therefore all further industrial action has been called off.

Additionally, management has agreed to widen the parameters of the Assaults Working Group comprised of elected local representatives to deal with all aspects of staff safety and security and to ensure that this is a priority.

We will be making plans to discuss these issues with all RMT local, Health & Safety and Company Council Representatives and will be asking them to contact their Constituents to find out specific problems prior to this meeting. Following this meeting there will be further discussions with the company.

I will of course keep Branches and members advised of all developments.

This is undoubtedly a great victory and an absolute object lesson in demonstrating what complete solidarity can achieve.

2 Comments

  1. I really didn’t believe unions still referred to members as “Brother”….

    Comment by Penfold — September 23, 2007 #

  2. Sometimes they are sisters as well, or is that just UNISON & some religions.
    Make it one big family.

    IMHO, it is one of the best victory I have seen, he union done everything right & NX ONE backed down.

    Still a lot of questions still need to be answer, how far can you go, to stop someone who has not paid for they ticket or doing something illegal, or even defending you self from attack.

    May be the other thing is, training & knowing there is a system to back you up, what has happen at Colchester has shown that this is not happing right now, that is the fault of ONE, not RMT.

    Plus members who do Guard, RPI or any type of ticket checks, are in the same type of job, like Police, Traffic Wardens, enforcement which need high amount of training & back up when things go wrong.

    Comment by Michael — October 8, 2007 #

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