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THE CAMPAIGN

KEEP LONDON MOVING brings together commuters and passengers who are sick and tired of the repeated threats of industrial action by transport workers and would be willing – in principle – to volunteer their own time and effort to help maintain a functioning service on the London Underground in the event of future strikes.

Over three million people everyday rely on the tube, but increasingly they are being held to ransom by a tiny coterie of militant trade unionists – led by self-proclaimed communist, Bob Crow – who frequently threaten to bring the nation’s capital to a standstill on the most flimsy and spurious of grounds. Their principal intention is usually to inflate still further the grotesquely large pay packets of London Underground staff. The needs of millions of passengers must not be continually overridden by the ridiculous demands of barely 8,000 RMT members who work on the underground system.

Tube drivers are paid approximately £40,000 a year to work a thirty-five hour week, with almost nine weeks’ annual leave, a generous pension and free travel thrown in. Unsurprisingly, such staggeringly overpaid work ensures that all vacancies are enormously over-subscribed. Even if tube drivers’ salary packages were halved, they would still be paid about the same as London bus drivers who undertake considerably more skilled and difficult work.

As a modern, 21^st century city, London cannot afford to fall victim to waves of 1970s-style industrial action. This is especially true in the present uncertain economic climate. And with the capital due to host the Olympics in four years’ time, the capacity for the RMT union to wreak havoc on our city will only increase unless drastic action is taken.

By becoming a supporter of KEEP LONDON MOVING you would be pledging – in principle – to volunteer for an eight hour shift for every full week of strikes on London Underground and to make yourself available for rudimentary training before commencing any work. You would not be incurring any legal obligation by pledging your support.

We will use every pledge we receive to seek to work effectively with Transport for London - and whoever is elected London mayor in May - to break the RMT’s stranglehold on the London underground network.

We are under no illusions about the sheer scale of political will that will be required to remove the ability of extremist trade unionists to bring the London underground to a shuddering halt. But neither do we believe that we can continue to pander to the increasingly frivolous and unreasonable demands of the transport unions, who represent a workforce whose remuneration is already excessive. Our capital city needs and deserves an efficient and reliable underground network. That will never be on offer as long as the RMT continues to be maintain its iron grip on our city’s transport. Please pledge your support to KEEP LONDON MOVING today, and encourage your friends to do likewise.

Please participate in this campaign, by registering your support  here and by forwarding details of the KEEP LONDON MOVING campaign to your friends, colleagues and other possible supporters.

Keep London Moving is a campaign of the independent think tank Progressive Vision.  The campaign has no association with Transport for London or London Underground.

Keep London Moving, Suite 111, 95 Wilton Road London SW1V 1BZ.  Telephone: +44-207 870 5303