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Howard Beckett, assistant general secretary of Unite, is among those vying to replace Len McCluskey This is a breaking news story and will be updated. Follow HuffPost UK on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Bob Crow, the late boss of the RMT transport union, was undoubtedly a controversial figure.  London commuters late for work due to seemingly endless Tube strikes would curse his name. Politicians and journalists who clashed with the left-wing firebrand would call him a “dinosaur” or, owing to his whopping £142,000 salary, a “champagne socialist”.  But when Crow died suddenly in 2...

WE IN the in the Musicians’ Union (MU) find ourselves facing bleak conclusions when it comes to the state of things — they are not good but it’s not like we have any other choice. That bleakness is underlined by the prospect of an industrial nightmare ahead of us, with the West End dropping musicians for the sake of profits, education being cut by 50 per cent and gigs still being a tentative dream because of the pandemic. So how on earth do we remedy this? What can be done? Throughout the past 10-12 years, as a result of austerity, there have been dogmatic attacks on the trade union mov...

Sat 8 May 2021 02.00 EDT Portraits of trade union leaders from a century ago, all stiff collars and waxed moustaches, gaze down from the boardroom wall of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union’s London headquarters. Staring back in a baggy black suit is the shaven-headed new general secretary, Mick Lynch, merrily denouncing the sellouts among them. Lynch, 59, knows his history, good and bad, and is preparing for battle ahead, having already announced that the union is in dispute with Network Rail, the government-owned body that runs the railways, over cost-cutting plans. A national strike ...

Mr Cash had been elected after Bob Crow died suddenly in 2014. Mr Lynch said: “I am greatly honoured to have been elected by the RMT’s members as general secretary. “I will maximise the unity of our great organisation, bringing together every sector and grade to build our union’s membership, influence and power. We will grow our union in every workplace as a strong and dynamic force. “Our message to the employers and the politicians is that RMT stands ready to campaign and fight against pay freezes, cuts to safety and conditions. “We call on the rest of the Labour movement to stan...

Steve Turner Steve Turner is sitting on the sofa in his south London home and he’s sick of it. For nearly a year, the Unite assistant general secretary has been hamstrung by lockdown, unable to properly do his day job of negotiating on behalf of its members in workplaces up and down the land. “I’ll go into the office a couple of days a week, and there are particular meetings, but other than that I’ve been on this settee so much it’s now got a dent in it!” he says. “It’s driving me nuts because I’m a social person, I want to get out and I want to interact with people.”