London United bus workers have first-hand experience of the role of General Secretary Sharon Graham who boasts of her close relationship with the reps, and has hailed every de facto pay cut agreement as a victory.
At Shepherds Bush a driver discussed with David O’Sullivan the issue of a rank-and-file committee, “I would like to know how this would work. We got 1.5 percent from the union last year and our strike was left completely isolated…We need something different.”