Trade union democracy

Strikes: ideas to win, mistakes to avoid

Anti-social hours, poor safety, low pay, job cuts, victimisation, attacks on condtions ... Over and again, we have to fight, and when the talking fails, we have to strike.

Our strongest weapon is our power to withdraw our labour. The media often make out that ultra-militant union leaders force...

Yes, we should negotiate in the open!

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told an LBC journalist that he would be prepared to conduct live, televised negotiations with the government, saying, "Let's get it in the open [...] The RMT and the trade unions always turn up for any debate. I’ve debated with government ministers in the past on the...

When is an “update” not an update?

Aslef recently sent an “update on talks” to members.

Good stuff, you might think… the union is keeping members informed on the progress of negotiations so we can make informed decisions about the next steps in our dispute. We’ll learn exactly what arguments the bosses are putting forward, and how...

RMT re-ballot: vote early!

RMT has announced that ballots will soon be coming through the letterboxes of members at Network Rail and the TOCs involved in the national dispute, re-balloting us on whether we want to continue taking industrial action.

"Taking back the union"?

A bulletin distributed by the RMT Broad Left, a political faction within the union, at the union's AGM, which began yesterday (3 July) in Birmingham, offers a perspective for “taking back [the] union”.

From who, one wonders?

The general secretary, senior assistant general secretary, president...

Keep us in the loop!

On the eve of the third day of strike action, RMT members received an an email confirming that today's action was still on.

It says that talks have been taking place all week: "The issues are extremely complex and there is no breakthrough at this time...

Every worker and every grade in all...

Aslef conference backs Labour affiliation

Aslef's Annual Assembly of Delegates (AAD, its annual decision-making conference) voted overwhelmingly, by 74-9, to retain the union's affiliation to the Labour Party earlier this week. Activists organising to reject disaffiliation motions had been expecting it to be much closer than this but on the...

For rank-and-file control of our dispute!

At RMT's online rally on 28 April, one rep asked what will happen when different employers start to make offers on pay - will the unity across different TOCs and Network Rail continue? The reply was that we are going into dispute together, and we will stay together.

It's good our leaders have said...

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