Tag Archives: RMT
News in brief
A quick look around the news of the day Trade unions The high court has once again intervened to prevent legitimate strike action going ahead. A strike by RMT workers on Docklands light railway has been deemed unlawful by Mr Justice Tugendhat because of a legal technicality despite 162 workers, out of 175 balloted, voting [...]
Tube drivers victimisation
The ongoing victimisation of two tube workers by London Underground (LU) resulted in the RMT union instigating strike action a week before Christmas. Eamonn Lynch, a driver on the Bakerloo Line and RMT health and safety rep was sacked over what LU management called an “operational incident.”
Going Underground
RMT London regional organiser Steve Hedley reports on the ongoing tube workers dispute The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has now had three very successful one day strikes in defence of jobs and safety on the underground. Management propose to do away with 800 frontline station jobs. These are in the [...]
Anarchists and co-operation with the left
Over the last few weeks there have been various initiatives from the left to woo a larger anti-Labour Party front to fight the elections. We as anarchists have historically not got involved on in the election machine as we have always seen it as irrelevant and divisive. But there have been developments which mean that, [...]
