Dear Colleague,
URGENT PROTEST: Operate LOROL in the Public Sector
Monday 24th May, Whitechapel Station, London
07.30 - 08.30
On Sunday 23rd May the extended East London Line will formally re-open, as part of private company, LOROL (London Overground). The RMT has tirelessly campaigned for the upgrade of this line, but we are extremely concerned that LOROL's first priority is to shareholders and not to passengers or communities, repeating the mistake of the national rail network. £1bn has been spent on this upgrade and every single penny of taxpayer subsidy and fare revenue should be invested to improve services and not be removed from the industry in shareholder dividends.
We have called a protest on the first full working day for the Line next Monday (24th May) outside Whitechapel Station between 07.30 and 08.30 to demand that LOROL services be transferred to London Underground, which is publicly-owned and publicly-accountable. An Early Day Motion will be tabled on that day by the RMT's Parliamentary Group of MPs.
Please make every effort to attend and help distribute leaflets to the passengers.
Please do get involved
Yours sincerely,
Bob Crow
General Secretary
1 comment:
are the RMT deliberately stuipid? The ELL has been opened on time, on budget and their running of the rest of the Overground network has earned them industry-wide plaudits. The LO network, and London, has benefitted massively from their investment and expertise, so if there was to be any re-nationalisation of rail services sheer common sense dictates that surely they are hardly a priority.
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