Tag Archives: RMT

By Alec Thraves, delegate from Swansea Trades Council With a rebranding its name, on the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Wales TradesUnion Congress (TUC), the 2024 biennial congress of ‘TUC Cymru’ in Llandudno was arefreshing and largely combative event, which took up the key issues facing the trade unionmovement in Wales.A big factor in this changed mood, compared ...

By Rob Williams, Socialist Party trade union organiser 2023 is beginning as 2022 ended, with significant nationwide strike action, this time of railway workers in RMT and Aslef. Postal workers continue their fight against Royal Mail bosses and are gearing up for a mandatory reballot after six months of strikes. NHS workers, nurses and ambulance workers have more strike dates set for this ...

By Dave Reid Over 200 attended a strike solidarity rally called by Cardiff Trades Union Council on August 20th. Called at short notice in the middle of the holiday period, the rally was an impressive show of the developing strength and confidence of organised workers taking action or preparing for action. As well as Brendan Kelly, regional organiser for the ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1190 As more rail and other strikes take place, Tory Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and would-be Tory prime ministers Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are threatening even more anti-union laws. On the campaign trail to the electorate of just 160,000 Conservative Party members, the candidates are trying to outdo each other in championing further restrictions ...

By Jared Wood (RMT NEC member in a personal capacity) Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers Union (RMT) members are taking further strike action across train operating companies and Network Rail on 27 July, 18 August and 20 August. At the time of writing, the union is also considering further strike dates on London Underground. RMT is in the front line ...

As news broke of the Johnson government’s implosion, delegates at the annual general meeting (AGM – the annual conference) of the RMT transport workers’ union were discussing what political strategy the union should adopt to meet the tests ahead. A reshaping of capitalist political representation is under way in Britain, the outcome of which is far from predictable. As the ...

Most rail services ground to a halt across Wales as 50,000 rail and tube workers walked out across the UK against government plans to cut jobs and services and a failure to agree a pay rise that maintained the cost of living. At Cardiff Central station over 70 workers from all over the trade union movement gathered in support of ...

Defend the right to strike 50,000 rail and tube workers in RMT transport union are standing shoulder to shoulder in historic national strike action, joined by other union members in some areas. Rail workers kept going throughout the pandemic, making sure other key workers could get to work. The least they, and the rest of us, deserve is an inflation-proof ...

Save Jobs, Nationalise P&O Ferries! By Dave Reid P&O Ferries, owned by Dubai-based DP World have sacked 800 workers in a pre-recorded message on zoom. The bosses turned up with agency workers to replace them backed up by security guards ready to handcuff workers who refused to leave the ships. Workers responded by occupying some of the ferries and are ...

Transport For Wales (TFW) has stepped back from industrial action planned by the RMT rail union and agreed to talks that would bring “in-house” all train cleaners currently working for outsourced company Axis. Cleaners had voted to strike on July 2nd but suspended their action when TFW agreed to convene a working group with the RMT to discuss bringing all ...