The core text from the letter is reprodued below:
Dear colleague
JOB CUTS - ON TRACK MACHINES & TRACK RENEWALS, AMEY
I am sure by now you will be aware of the outcome of the recent ballot for industrial action. However, to remind you, the result was against taking strike action but in favour of taking industrial action short of a strike.
Your Executive Committee has noted the result on industrial action short of a strike and has therefore decided to instruct you not to work any overtime between 00.01 hours on Wednesday 3rd June 2009 and 06.00 hours on Monday 8th June 2009.
Your Executive Committee has not taken this decision lightly and nor has it taken this decision without first consulting the senior RMT representatives at your company. The discussions which led to this decision centred on the fact that, to date, the issues which established this dispute have still not been resolved. Specifically, the company has still not given your union a commitment not to make any compulsory redundancies and that any transfer of work would be covered by TUPE legislation.
We have made every effort to resolve this dispute without taking industrial action, but all such efforts up to now has failed to see any assurances forthcoming from the company. That is why there is no option now other than to take industrial action.
Your union is not prepared to sit back and allow your employer to cut jobs and mess about with transfers of employment. That is why this action has been put on now and why we are asking you and your colleagues to abide by the democratic instruction of the Executive Committee.
I thank you for supporting your union's position throughout this dispute. Yours sincerely
Bob Crow General Secretary
Dear colleague
JOB CUTS - ON TRACK MACHINES & TRACK RENEWALS, AMEY
I am sure by now you will be aware of the outcome of the recent ballot for industrial action. However, to remind you, the result was against taking strike action but in favour of taking industrial action short of a strike.
Your Executive Committee has noted the result on industrial action short of a strike and has therefore decided to instruct you not to work any overtime between 00.01 hours on Wednesday 3rd June 2009 and 06.00 hours on Monday 8th June 2009.
Your Executive Committee has not taken this decision lightly and nor has it taken this decision without first consulting the senior RMT representatives at your company. The discussions which led to this decision centred on the fact that, to date, the issues which established this dispute have still not been resolved. Specifically, the company has still not given your union a commitment not to make any compulsory redundancies and that any transfer of work would be covered by TUPE legislation.
We have made every effort to resolve this dispute without taking industrial action, but all such efforts up to now has failed to see any assurances forthcoming from the company. That is why there is no option now other than to take industrial action.
Your union is not prepared to sit back and allow your employer to cut jobs and mess about with transfers of employment. That is why this action has been put on now and why we are asking you and your colleagues to abide by the democratic instruction of the Executive Committee.
I thank you for supporting your union's position throughout this dispute. Yours sincerely
Bob Crow General Secretary
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