National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

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RMT

National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
Members	73,000
Country	United Kingdom
Affiliation	TUC, STUC, ITF
Key people	Bob Crow, general secretary
Office location	London, England
Website	www.rmt.org.uk

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) is a trade union in the United Kingdom which unionises transport workers. It has 73,000 members, and its current general secretary is Bob Crow.

It was formed by a merger of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) and the National Union of Seamen (NUS).

Predecessors of the RMT were among the unions which set up the Labour Representation Committee in 1900. In 2003, some Scottish branches of the RMT, affiliated to the Scottish Trades Union Congress, voted to donate some of their funds to the Scottish Socialist Party. This led the Labour Party to disaffiliate the union in early 2004. In Wales some branches are now supporting Forward Wales, led by the former Labour Welsh Assembly member John Marek. Some local branches of the RMT, such as Grimsby, are still affiliated to their local Constituency Labour Party (CLP).

Contents 1 General Secretaries 2 London Underground 3 External links 4 References

[edit] General Secretaries

• 1990: Jimmy Knapp
• 2001: Bob Crow

[edit] London Underground

The RMT in recent years are best known to the British public through media exposure for their on-going clashes with London Underground and its privatised contractors Metronet and Tubelines.^[1]In the early 21st century, clashes leading to industrial action costing London business millions of pounds per day^[2] have included concerns over pay, pensions, safety and job security.

[edit] External links

• RMT website
• The Marine Society

[edit] References