Issues and campaigns: Trade unions

Workers’ self-defence starts with getting unionised at work. This section includes material on the trade union struggles and issues I am involved in and/or urge you to support!

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  • RMT
    • The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (UK). I have been a member since 1997, and served on the union's national executive 2011-13.
  • RMT Disabled Members
    • Janine was the founding Chair, and later Secretary, of transport trade union RMT's Disabled Members' Advisory Committee.
  • TUC Disabled Workers Committee
    • Janine was elected to this Committee in 2013 and each year since (except 2020-21), before leaving it in 2023.

An Ode to Tube Cleaning

A right filthy job is Tube cleaning We slave while the bosses are preening We work night and day No pension or sick pay And the wages are truly demeaning But cleaners won’t let them attack us Harass us, track … Read more

Justice For The 33

Throughout 2013, RMT members fought a struggle for the reinstatement of 33 agency workers who lost their jobs when their agency was (rightly) kicked off the Underground. I wrote this poem in support of that campaign. Eventually some, but not … Read more