Interview with two picketers on 21st June at Leytonstone station

It was a great picket at Leytonstone on the first day of the RMT strike. They welcomed us from the Waltham Forest Trade Union Council, and helped to fix up our banner, took photos and liked our All Strike Together placard.

The following is an interview with two of the picketers.

Question 1: Getting to this stage of a national strike across 13 companies has been a huge effort by RMT, and you have raised the hopes of many workers too. What do you think the union should do next?
Answer: I think we need a general strike. 100%. Every union. The whole lot.
The Tories got a clear agenda to bust the unions. No doubt about that. They don’t want to negotiate. TUC should call action.

Question 2: The Tories are threatening to introduce legislation to allow agency workers to replace strikers.… Read on ...