CONGRATULATIONS TO ALEX GORDON
TRAIN DRIVER Alex Gordon has been elected to serve as the President of RMT for the coming three years.
In the postal ballot that closed today Bristol-based Alex, who will take up office in January, beat four other candidates and replaces John Leach, a London Underground worker whose term of office ends at the close of the year.
RMT’s President is the most senior lay official in the union, whose responsibility is to uphold the union’s rulebook and to preside over meetings of the union’s executive bodies, including the sovereign annual general meeting.
“Alex Gordon is a highly respected RMT activist who has served his union at all levels, from the all-important local rep to the union’s executive, and I know he will make an excellent President,” RMT general secretary Bob Crow said today.
Congratulations to Alex.
As President of the union with the most to gain from an environmentally sustainable transport policy I do hope he ends his sectarian hostility to Respect and other socialists, including left wing elements of the Green Party, like Peter Cranie who he attacked as representing another bourgeois party, and tries to work with them where they can agree, which is probably on 95%-100% of the issues which affect RMT members.
Comment by Prinkipo Exile — 21 December, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
Well done Alex, this is great news!
Comment by Clive — 21 December, 2009 @ 6:46 pm
Well done Alex,
Best of luck with your new position comrade.
I’m sure you won’t be the slightest bit bothered by futile sectarian attacks from those who have either abandoned class politics or never had them in the first place.
Comment by Karl Stewart — 21 December, 2009 @ 7:43 pm
Congratulations to Alex.
Karl- Try and remember that you are not anything like as sectarian and economistic as you sometimes make yourself out to be.
Comment by Armchair — 21 December, 2009 @ 8:38 pm
Hi Armchair, just responding to Prinkipo’s rather sad effort at resurrecting old arguments best moved on from.
(Liked the “trainspotting” joke on the PCS thread by the way mate!)
Comment by Karl Stewart — 21 December, 2009 @ 8:53 pm
#5 Thanks Karl, particularly as it has been said to me that I’m not as funny as I think I am.
I got into a terrible row the other day. This bloke ended up saying, “carry on looking at me like that and you’re geography!”
I said, “You mean history don’t you?”
He said. ” Stop trying to change the subject!”
Comment by Armchair — 21 December, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
#6 Sorry about that, I went with my partner and the grandchildren to the panto the other day and that one’s been cracking me up ever since.
Comment by Armchair — 21 December, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
Actually, that’s not bad.
Comment by KrisS — 21 December, 2009 @ 9:24 pm
# 6, 8
Actually that joke ( or variations of ) is ancient history, but as I heard it in my old home town back in the 50’s I suppose it has geographical connections.
Comment by Halshall — 21 December, 2009 @ 10:52 pm
Karl “Prinkipo’s rather sad effort at resurrecting old arguments best moved on from.”
Karl I very much hope that we have moved on from the past. I look forward to Alex and the RMT Executive’s invitation to ALL socialists to discuss how best we can fight for a sustainable transport policy and work for socialist canidates who support the aims and objectives of the RMT at the next election. Isn’t that what class politics is all about?
Comment by Prinkipo Exile — 22 December, 2009 @ 6:43 am
#9 The old ones are the best. I’m simply amazed this was the first time I heard it. That’s one of the main reasons I go to the panto!
On the subject of arguments, it went off in the chippie the other evening. Bet nobody can guess what happened…
Comment by Armchair — 22 December, 2009 @ 9:58 am
‘ I look forward to Alex and the RMT Executive’s invitation to ALL socialists to discuss how best we can fight for a sustainable transport policy and work for socialist canidates who support the aims and objectives of the RMT at the next election. Isn’t that what class politics is all about’
Prinkipo, the RMT issued that invite several months ago, as their conference on the crisis of leadership of the left (which Alex chaired) was advertised widely on this site, I’m not sure how you missed it.
Comment by paulm — 23 December, 2009 @ 9:22 am