A national rail strike, due to begin today, May 25, has been suspended by the Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA) and the Rail Maritime Transport Workers union (RMT).
Working hand in glove with the management, the union bureaucrats have sought at every turn to undermine the balloted strike action, which was called in furtherance of pay increases and job protection.
As the World Socialist Web Site pointed out last Saturday:-
To break through the strait jacket of the trade unions, new, genuinely democratic organisations of class struggle—action committees guided by the perspective of international socialism—must be formed in a rebellion against the union bureaucracy. They have proven time and again that they will sacrifice the living standards, jobs and democratic rights of the working class to maintain their upper middle class lifestyles and close ties with big business.
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