Traincrew Grades Conference Secretary BY A MAJORITY of just 163, British Rail members of the RMT have voted to accept "guarantees' that BR will try to avoid compulsory redundancies.
This stops any further action but settles nothing. Most railworkers do not trust BR but many doubted the RMT leadership's commitment to fight.
with tie unson soul our task is to rebuild a fight against BR's plans to attack pay and conditors me preparation for privatisation.
"To do that it will be necessary to take on the RMT leadersaup, who would ratner sce railworkers defeated than their own cosy conditions threatened.
The formation of the Campaign for a Fighting & Demotimely. The left should take heart that. despite massive threats, 49.8% of the union were still prepared to vote for further strike action.
The union is to ballot London Underground members over pay. With BR pay also unresorrco, actvisis snogid pick for pay to be made a union-wide issuc, linked to the broader fight against the government's 1.5% pay limit.
For the RMT bureaucracy the threat to end the automatic deduction of union dues from members pay became the major costs.
This was hehind the contro versial ruling that a two-thirds majority of the executive was The confusion this caused led activists. Members from over launch meeting last month and the Campaign has organised success ul fringe meetings al the wrons grades contences.
it will hold mating the unions' Jupe AGM. Conferences of traincrew and signals & passed resolutions highly criti. cal of the RMT leaders.
Knapp has responded with urcats of ciscipitty action Branches and Districts supporting the Campaign have 14 days been attached to unofficial circulars'.
In a connected move Knapp proposes to change the Tuics to allow those who produce such "unofficial circulars' to be expelled from the union.
When Knapp was told this might be illegal, he told the Council of Executives it was *about time someone stood up against the Tory anti-union laws.' After the ballot defeat, left wing members of the executive themselves up for reelection, so their say on how the dispute was handled.
None of the seven who vored to stop the strike would do so. They knew only 1o0 well what their fate would be. Already many branches have passed resolutions demanding the
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