RMT young members would face “real struggles” under a Labour government, the union’s senior assistant general secretary warned today.
Speaking at the RMT young members’ annual conference in Wigan, Eddie Dempsey said he doesn’t trust the party’s leadership to keep its pledge to abolish the Tories’ Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) law.
He predicted a Labour government later this year, adding: “Over the next year or two, we are going to have some real struggles in front of us.
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’
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY


