To: All RMT London Transport Workers

To: All RMT London Transport workers

RMT POLITICAL FUND

YOUR UNION - YOUR VOICE

Dear Colleague

I am writing to advise you of important information about your Union’s campaign to defend your jobs and safety and to improve your pay and conditions.

Your union needs to campaign on the issues that affect you at the workplace. The law states that unions must have a separate Political Fund to pay for this. Furthermore, all unions are required, by law, to ballot their members every ten years to retain the Political Fund.

On 1st September ballot papers will be despatched to all RMT members so you will be able to vote to continue with the protection of your political fund. Your union will be urging you to vote YES!

This ballot is not about political affiliation – you are voting on the basic right to keep your political fund so your union can continue to campaign on your behalf and lobby politicians on the bread and butter issues that affect you at the workplace.

Winning a Yes vote will be vital to allow your union to defend the rights which we have already won for London Transport workers and to ensure that we can continue to campaign for new rights and improvements. These include,

1. Better pay with reduced hours

2. Pensions

3. Defending London Transport jobs

4. More Rights at work

5. Improved health and safety

If we don’t have a political fund we cannot campaign on these issues.

If we lose the political fund the union will be less able to fight back against the employers political campaigning. We will be fighting with one hand behind your back. Support your union. More information about the campaign can be found at,

http://www.rmt.org.uk/yourunion.yourvoice/

Your Union - Your Voice

Yours sincerely

Mick Cash

Acting General Secretary