RMT AT CARNIVAL

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: october 2019 :: RMTnews 21 R MT members from various grades participated for the third time in the Notting Hill Carnival in August. The RMT message at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival was spread along two separate floats. It would be hard pressed to view the bands without seeing the RMT logo. RMT brought the reparations message by highlighting the five keystones of reparations: Restitution, Compensation, Rehabilitation, Satisfaction and Guarantees of Non-Repetition. The union highlight that chattel slavery was occurring in North Africa as well as slavery in different guises throughout Europe. These abuses are not so far from home which the Slavery Act 2015 has shown. The RMTs second float at the Notting Hill Carnival once again highlighted the work of Claudia Jones. This Trinidadian-born communist was founder of the UK West-Indian Gazette the first ‘Black British’ newspaper. The RMT banner still proudly exclaimed that “RMT remembers the anti-racist and social campaigner Claudia Jones and her fight for equality and justice in the face of her political persecution”. The banner quoted Claudia Jones in stating that, “A peoples art is the genesis of their Freedom”. Members met early in the day and handed out leaflets and postcard around the “Cut Fares Not Staff and Save Our Stations campaigns which received positive feedback from the public. bame ad RMT AT CARNIVAL UNITY IN DIVERSITY A celebration of black and ethnic minority union members RMT published a pamphlet last year to mark the 25th anniversary of the union’s black and ethnic minority members’ advisory committee and its annual conference.