Postal workers voiced support for building rank-and-file committees in their own workplaces: “It would certainly upset the Communication Workers Union, and their collusion with Royal Mail, if they knew masses of the workforce stood against their joint campaign.”
In order to prevent another sellout, the experiences of 2019, as well as other betrayals by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and Alliance of Health Care Unions, must be studied.
Tony Robson emphasised that voting No was not enough. The problem of removing the union bureaucracy had to be tackled directly. This was the importance of the PWRFC’s fight for rank-and-file committees on the shop floor.
The date for mailing ballots in the second round of the UAW election has passed, and only 136,114 workers have cast votes, or 12 percent of eligible members.
Unite accepts Arriva’s claim that it “cannot afford” to pay more, despite parent company Deusche Bahn growing revenue by 18.4 percent last year to €47.3 billion, with net profit of €5 billion.