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Making history at the RMT
Conrad Landin talks to the first female president of the RMT, MICHELLE RODGERS, about why she put herself forward for election, how the union boosts its grassroots and the importance of improving diversity
Michelle Rodgers (right) with female comrades from RMT
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“I GUESS I don’t know how it happened really,” Michelle Rodgers smiles. “You just put your head above the parapet and move forward. That was that really: there was me, knee-deep in trade unionism.”
But Rodgers, who was elected the first female president of rail union RMT earlier this year, could have ended up somewhere very different.
After leaving school, she initially trained as a chef — before having a motorbike accident, and ending up taking a job on the railways in 1989.
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