RMT calls off Northern Isles ferries strike
Following what both sides describe as significant progress, the RMT Union has suspended the planned days of strike action on Serco’s Northern Isles ferry routes over the Christmas and New Year...
View ArticleRunaway rail track maintenance unit at Glasow Queen Street injures staff member
In the early hours of Sunday 21st April, at Glasgow’s Queen Street rail station, a mobile elevation unit broke free, severed its early warning ‘failsafe’ cable and ploughed down the tracks. The unit...
View ArticleShipping union adds to Orkney woes on disabled Serco Northlink ferry
The MV Hamnavoe has limped to Rosyth on one engine for repair to her starboard engine’s crankshaft.Northern Isles Ferry Services operator, the controversial Serco Northlink, expects her to be back in...
View ArticleTerrifying near miss on London tube’s Northern Line on Monday evening
On Monday evening, 8th July, a London Underground train out of Finchley Central on the Northern Line was given a target speed to proceed out of the station – and after approximately 2 train lengths was...
View ArticleMaritime Labour Convention comes onto force tomorrow
The maritime union, RMT, has welcomed the belated coming into force of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) tomorrow – 20th August. The union believes that this new legislation has the potential...
View ArticleProtest at CHC heliport suspended after employers agree union terms tonight
Agreement reached with oil industry employers in talks this evening has seen offshore union, RMT suspending a protest planned for tomorrow morning at the heliport of Super Puma operators, CHC.The...
View ArticleLabour has no hope unless it cleans up
The Labour party has inflicted two bad strikes upon itself this weekend.First of all, its Leader, Ed Milliband [and only the desperate would imagine that David would be any better], reacted to the GMB...
View ArticleRMT demands First Minister’s intervention as call for public enquiry on...
Transport and offshore union RMT has today, 27th December 2013, issued a fresh call for First Minister Alex Salmond to take immediate and decisive action to establish a public inquiry into helicopter...
View ArticleCalMac the target for RMT call for action on exploitation of Estonian seafarers
[Updated below with CalMac response] The RMT shipping union yesterday, 18th June, demanded urgent action from the Scottish and UK Governments, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the ITF, over the...
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CalMac response to RMT on underpaid Estonian crew: they’re not happy either –...
Yesterday, 18th June, shipping union RMT called for urgent action from the Scottish and UK Governments, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the ITF, over the exploitation of a group of Estonian...
View ArticleScottish Government does what it can on Seatruck’s underpaid Estonian crew
Transport Minister, Keith Brown has, in response to RMT’s call for action, engaged in the issue of the exploitation by Seatruck of Estonian seafarers serving on freight vessels it charters, fully...
View ArticleRail Union calls on Scottish Government to act as SERCO’s troubles threaten...
The Rail Union RMT today, 22nd August, wrote to Scotland’s Transport Minister, Keith Brown, calling for his urgent intervention as the crisis and scandal-hit facilities company, SERCO – selected as the...
View ArticleUnions and politicians demand suspension of ScotRail franchise in light of...
The following statement has been signed by the listed MP’s, MSP’s and Trade Unions in respect of both the Scotrail main franchise and the Caledonian Sleeper Service in light of the new devolution...
View ArticleLabour facing its own UKIP
Mick Cash, newly elected General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union [RMT], has just made it known that the politics of the left could be on the brink of the same sort of polarisation...
View ArticleTransport contracts – are Scottish Government’s hands tied or not?
There have been confusing messages from the Scottish Government in the last week or so on the matter of the letting of transport contracts.First there was an untendered £12 million contract awarded to...
View ArticleRMT warns of threat to Caledonian Sleeper as Serco shares fall on slashed...
Rail Union, RMT, has just warned of a serious threat to the future of the Caledonian Sleeper service, as shares in the company selected to run the service, SERCO, fell heavily.The scandal-hit...
View ArticleRMT supports Scotrail service shut down
Following the shut down of Scotrail’s services this morning, pending infrastructural inspections to identify damage done by the storm conditions of the night, General Secretary of the rail union, RMT,...
View ArticleOIl & Gas services Schlumberger confirms 100+ jobs cut
Following yesterday’s announcement that BP is cutting 300 jobs from its operations in the North Sea oil and gas sector, Schlumberger, the worlds biggest oil and gas offshore services company, has...
View ArticleRMT rains on Shell’s parading the easy bit of decommissioning Brent Delta
Maritime union RMT has reacted angrily to news that Shell UK Ltd has awarded the Swiss-based Allseas Group SA the contract for the removal, transportation and load-in to shore of the topsides of three...
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Brian Wilson on Clyde and Hebridean Ferry Services tender
Brian Wilson, born in Dunoon in Argyll and Labour Minister of State from 1997-2003 in the Scottish Office, Foreign Office, Department of Trade and Industry and Energy, is also founding editor and...
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