TRADE unionists will unveil a red plaque on Monday commemorating the centenary of the General Strike at a London site significant in the nine-day struggle.

They will gather at 67 Camden Road, headquarters of the St Pancras Trades Council strike committee, which served to co-ordinate actions across the country in May 1926.

RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey and former NEU joint general secretary Kevin Courtney will join the Camden Trades Council for the unveiling of the plaque at 10.30am.

Mr Dempsey said he was “proud to be unveiling this plaque to honour the working-class men and women who stood together in 1926 and built a movement that still shapes our industries and our union today.

“In St Pancras, rail and transport workers were at the centre of a dispute that showed the collective strength of organised labour.

“The strike committee based at Camden Road showed what solidarity, discipline and organisation can achieve.”

St Pancras Trades Council played a key role in co-ordinating strike activity across key railway infrastructure, including the major goods depots and passenger termini at Euston, St Pancras and Kings Cross.

This put St Pancras on the map as an area of national strategic importance during the dispute, the RMT said.

“As we mark 100 years since the General Strike, our members today continue that tradition, standing up for safe staffing, decent pay and dignity at work across the transport network,” Mr Dempsey said.