Union elections

Sheffield Unison: almost unleashed

The “Unison Unleashed” rank-and-file caucus in the Sheffield local government branch of the public sector union Unison has narrowly missed out on unseating the existing bureaucratic leadership of the branch in the branch’s first election in two years. The existing branch chair, John Mordecai, was re-elected, but by only 410 votes to Unleashed’s 378 for that position. Similarly, for the Branch Communications Officer position there were just 100 votes in it, though Unleashed ran a brand new activist. The branch has been run by Unison’s regional office due to the local bureaucracy’s incompetence...

Left candidate excluded from construction union election

Construction worker Michael Dooley (interviewed in Solidarity 220 about the ongoing construction workers’ battle against pay cuts and deskilling) has been disqualified by his union UCATT from running in their forthcoming General Secretary election on the grounds that he is “not competent”. His main opponent, the incumbent Alan Ritchie, has also been disqualified. The ruling was made by a panel of six individuals picked from UCATT’s general council and executive committee. The decision marks another bizarre milestone in the history of UCATT’s “democracy”. The election was due to be re-run after...

Union challenge in Queensland

Bob Carnegie, a member of Workers’ Liberty Australia, is running for election as secretary of the Queensland branch of the Maritime Union of Australia — Australia’s union for dockworkers and seafarers. Nominations open on 7 March, and the ballot runs from 28 April to 14 June. Bob was a prominent member of the MUA — and, before it merged into the MUA, the Seamen’s Union of Australia — in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 he resigned from his full-time position as MUA Branch Organiser because he could not back the deal made by the union leadership to settle the lock-out by Patrick’s, one of Australia...

Result!

Tubeworker was delighted to see that Janine Booth won the election for RMT's Council of Executives. Janine's platform contained many ideas that Tubeworker has campaign for over the years, and alongisde many others, we put a lot of effort in to campaigning for her.

With a very big majority, Janine's...

Janine Booth wins in RMT Exec election

AWL member Janine Booth has become the first ever woman to be elected to the London Transport seat on the RMT's national Council of Executives. In a landslide victory, Janine received more than double the amount of votes won by her opponent (2,062 to 947). The key focus of her campaign was increasing rank-and-file control in the union and developing assertive industrial strategies designed to win. With the jobs dispute on London Underground now at a key juncture, the presence of a rank-and-file socialist like Janine on the union's national leadership could make a real difference.

What Sort of RMT Executive Member Do We Need?

When disputes get to the point when we think, ‘where next?’, this can be a time when union leaderships betray the workers involved, or at least ignore us.

We have got to a ‘where next?’ point in this dispute at precisely the time when we are electing our next representative on the RMT's leadership...

Tubeworker 15/10/10: RMT Executive - Vote Janine Booth!

The new issue of Tubeworker urges readers to vote for Janine Booth in the forthcoming RMT Executive election. It also reports on London Underground's latest job cuts announcement, the sacking of Eamonn Lynch, and press comments on Bob Crow's pay. Click the file name below to download it. Click here to read Tubeworker 's blog.

RMT Executive: Vote Janine Booth!

Tubeworker aims to speak for the rank and file, the majority of workers, who go to work every day, whose trade union activity is based in our workplace, who are at the grassroots of the union.

We are backing Janine Booth for RMT’s executive because her record proves that she is the candidate who...

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