RMT BOOKLETS - UNITY IS STRENGTH AND PULLING TOGETHER

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: november/december 2012 :: RMTnews 35 I want a copy of Unity is Strength for £3 I want a copy of Pulling Together: A Popular History of RMT for £2 I would like both publications for £5 Name Address Unity House, 39 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD. Make cheques payable to RMT. Also available from the RMT webshop UNITY IS STRENGTH: 100 YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM New RMT publication celebrates the centenary of the founding of the National Union of Railwaymen and a new type of trade unionism in Britain - industrial unionism. W ritten by outgoing RMT president Alex Gordon, this booklet tells the rail workers’ story. The story of how the 1901 Taff Vale judgement led to the beginnings of Labour Representation and the 1906 Trades Disputes Act. It tells of the great hopes and the betrayal by ‘Lib- Labs’ of the 1907 All-Grades Movement. The fight for independent working class education is also told and of how the first national rail strike in 1911 spread political class-consciousness into the workplaces of the most industrialised nation on earth. The demand for amalgamation of railway unions was the militant echo of the 1911 strike. In 35 years from the NUR’s foundation in 1913, railworkers had won national collective bargaining, improvements to pay and conditions and showed the political importance that industrial organisation gives to workers, culminating in railway nationalisation from 1948 under the post-war Labour government. Unity is Strength is available to RMT members for just £3 postage. Also available is Pulling Together: A Popular History of RMT for just £2 postage. P ulling Together gives an insight into the struggles, defeats and victories of members over 150 years. Pulling Together gives members an engaging and colourfully illustrated window on the history of the union up to the present day. It tells the story of how the union developed under very difficult circumstances against very powerful opponents and maintained itself as a democratic, fighting organisation that today represents members in all sectors and grades of the transport industry. PULLING TOGETHER: A POPULAR HISTORY OF RMT UNITY IS STRENGTH