RMT AT TUC

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: october 2017 :: RMTnews 10 RMT missed no opportunity to raise Britain’s longest-running industrial dispute, Southern Rail, both inside and outside the conference hall as many delegates made the trip to the south coast via Govia Thameslink Railway Conference also took place as Brexit continued to fill the newspapers and airwaves and was a major subject of debate with much speculation that the TUC nationally was trying to lever the movement into a commitment to remain within the EU’s single market. RMT general secretary Mick Cash said at a fringe that the union campaigned for a leave vote and there should be no suggestion that there is some back door route by which Britain can remain in the EU despite a democratic de cision in a national vote. “It should not be forgotten that the leave position was supported by a clear majority of working people. "As far as RMT is concerned membership of the single market is membership of the EU and would mean the retention of key anti-worker policies like rail privatisation and social dumping. “We would be kept under the iron grip of the unelected Brussels bureaucracy with control remaining out of our hands,” he said. As the union opposed the TUC General Council statement on the EU, delegate and national executive Eddie RMT AT TUC RMT delegation makes its voice heard at TUC Congress meeting in Brighton Mick Cash Eddie Dempsey Karlson Lingwood Billy Jones Glenroy Watson Sean Hoyle