Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

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Trade unions / Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.

16 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
Trade unions / Shameful capitulation of workers’ leadership in face of ‘mourning’ demands

With hunger, blackouts and war knocking urgently at workers’ doors, our demand should be: ‘Don’t mourn, organise.’

12 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
Disputes / Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!

In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.

22 Jun 2022 ,

RMT video

Disputes / Rail strike spreads as employers and government remain intransigent

Our rulers are well aware that a victory for rail workers would boost the confidence of workers in other sectors, all suffering from the rampant inflation crisis.

12 Aug 2022, Proletarian TV

RMT highlights

Trade unions / Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.

Trade unions / Shameful capitulation of workers’ leadership in face of ‘mourning’ demands

With hunger, blackouts and war knocking urgently at workers’ doors, our demand should be: ‘Don’t mourn, organise.’

Disputes / Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!

In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.

Disputes / Train strike: Britain could see the largest walk-out since the 1926 general strike

Meanwhile, the government is considering adding to anti-trade-union legislation to try to outlaw the action before it begins.

Lay-offs and closures / The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover

When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.

Lay-offs and closures / P&O sackings: Don’t make workers pay for the capitalist crisis

The ferry company’s callous treatment of its employees reminds us yet again that the logic of the capitalist system is impervious to the needs of human beings.

Health / Covid: Frontline workers are paying for the crisis with their lives

Thousands of businesses are claiming to be ‘essential’, forcing staff to come to work but failing to provide PPE or to implement proper safety measures.

Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under threat

It is the bosses’ responsibility to see to it that deferred wages are paid in full; why are workers expected to take the hit?

Lay-offs and closures / P&O takes the money and runs

The shipping company is laying off a thousand workers on the very routes it is being paid public money to operate.

Pay and conditions / Offshore oil workers under threat

Will trade unions now get off the back foot and start to mobilise their members into an active campaign of resistance?

Pay and conditions / Defend railway pensions!

Workers have a right to their deferred wages in retirement and to a dignified old age after a lifetime of work.

Disputes / Stand with rail strikers defending passenger safety

Railway bosses have abandoned the deal that was struck a year ago and are refusing to restart talks without preconditions.

Disputes / Support the South Western Railway strike

Railway workers are fighting to put safety ahead of profit: keep the guard on the train!

Iran / Unions call on British government to send in the gunboats

What would Bob Crow have said to the ITF’s blindly acquiescing in the war games of our imperial masters?

Pay and conditions / Railway pensions under attack

As profiteering franchise bidders haggle with the government over contract terms, workers’ hard-earned pensions are once more under threat.

Disputes / South Western railworkers win battle to keep the guard on the train

Safe and affordable public transport for all. Support our rail workers!

Pay and conditions / Support the workers against Condor and the ships of shame!

Defend Brexit and fight for better working conditions for all.

Industry / Privatised rail industry totters

The resistance of rail workers to safety-cutting measures is bringing the question of renationalisation back onto the political agenda.

Trade unions / Aslef’s ‘shabby deal’

Rail bosses use divide and rule tactics to weaken resistance to safety-cutting measures.

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RMT video

Disputes / Rail strike spreads as employers and government remain intransigent

Our rulers are well aware that a victory for rail workers would boost the confidence of workers in other sectors, all suffering from the rampant inflation crisis.

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