RMT Trade Union Recognition - GrantRail Ltd
Circular No. IR0162/06
Dear Colleague,
I am pleased to be able to report that, following a lengthy dispute, the RMT now has been formally recognised by GrantRail Ltd on the same basis as GMB and Community, the two unions previously holding recognition within the company.
Our members within the company should be congratulated for their resolve, which has achieved this positive result, and I would urge our activists to continue to recruit workers from the company to the union in order to strengthen our bargaining power.
Our dispute with the company has been a bitter one, but at this point it will be more productive to look forward rather than backward, to build a productive relationship at the negotiating table in order to achieve much needed improvements to our members' pay and conditions.
Yours sincerely,
Bob Crow
General Secretary