Regarding the contribution to the debate over the calling off of the LUL strike by the two RMT members writing in SO 3.
It was surely no surprise that most LUL workers were relieved when they weretold by their leaders, national and in LUL, that they did not after all have to strike in defence of jobs; indeed that they have already won a substantial victory. This was not a wages strike where a hostile reaction would be normal, but the difficult issue of the defence of jobs. The positive vote for action was the result of opular demand but achieved by a campaign by the RMT leadership on LUL.
The question is whether the rank and file of the RMT on LUL would have been prepared to continue with the action they had already voted for a by a two to one majority if their leadership åt its various levels had continued to urge them to do My answer to that is that 1 don't know. I do know that the move into strike action, after all the normal hesitations which precede it, normally has a strengthening dynamic.
However, whatever the actual situation, the only people who could have given the real A proposition from the RMT leadership on LUL that they would have provided the answer. My point is not that a strike mandate must be carried only those who gave it have the matter of principle and a part of thev must not be interfered Already there is another exbership decision on LUL the RMT leadership has now called
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