RMT's protest against the ‘derisory’ pay deal outside Parliament today
ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY workers held a noisy demonstration outside Parliament yesterday against their livelihoods being “undermined” by a “derisory” pay deal.
The 700 RMT members, who supply vital goods to the Royal Navy, have been taking industrial action for over two weeks.
This includes refusing to return early from leave, working only contracted hours and only practising mandatory safety drills.
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
