Dougal2345
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The RMT has been in the news again today for yesterday declining to support the motion "Solidarity with Ukraine" at the 2023 TUC Congress:
https://congress.tuc.org.uk/c21-solidarity-with-ukraine/
To remind ourselves of the leaders of the RMT:
This is not about the RMT strikes - as a rail user, I find them annoying, although I have some sympathy for their aims, but that's not what I'm thinking about. I'd be writing this even in a time of industrial harmony.
It's more of a general question to the rank and file RMT members here.
No doubt there are a few hard-left 'watch "Russia Today", love Putin, hate Israel, anything but NATO' types here. But surely the average RMT member isn't like this?
There must be a whole range of political opinions amongst its tens of thousands of members. How can the more moderate members live with being part of an organisation led by people like this?
It would personally sicken me to say I were a member of the RMT at the moment, given the antics of its revolting leadership.
But there seems to be no mass exodus. Do the average members just shrug their shoulders when they think about their leaders, because doing anything about them is too much bother?
https://congress.tuc.org.uk/c21-solidarity-with-ukraine/
Congress unequivocally condemns Russia’s illegal, aggressive invasion of Ukraine
To remind ourselves of the leaders of the RMT:
- Eddie Dempsey - Senior Assistant General Secretary - His pro-Putin sympathies have never been in doubt (see my profile picture).
- Mick Lynch - General Secretary - is infamous for his rambling repetition of Putin's propaganda in a recent interview.
- Alex Gordon - President - is similar, a Marxist with extreme views. You don't have to search long before you find photos of him protesting outside the Ukrainian embassy wearing the black and orange 'St George' ribbon, a symbol of support for Russia.
This is not about the RMT strikes - as a rail user, I find them annoying, although I have some sympathy for their aims, but that's not what I'm thinking about. I'd be writing this even in a time of industrial harmony.
It's more of a general question to the rank and file RMT members here.
No doubt there are a few hard-left 'watch "Russia Today", love Putin, hate Israel, anything but NATO' types here. But surely the average RMT member isn't like this?
There must be a whole range of political opinions amongst its tens of thousands of members. How can the more moderate members live with being part of an organisation led by people like this?
It would personally sicken me to say I were a member of the RMT at the moment, given the antics of its revolting leadership.
But there seems to be no mass exodus. Do the average members just shrug their shoulders when they think about their leaders, because doing anything about them is too much bother?
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