RMT Union's Eddie Dempsey has defended the latest rail strike despite the latest offer not being put to a referendum of union members. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 Every time we get an offer, we consult directly with our members.
00:03 People forget we're probably one of the most democratic organisations in the country.
00:08 And we've got many ways of having democratic conversations with our members that don't
00:11 just involve a referendum vote.
00:13 So we had one of the largest consultation processes in our union in its history.
00:18 Every branch, every part of our organisation held meetings, mass meetings, local meetings
00:23 to discuss the proposals.
00:24 So they all responded to our executive committee.
00:27 They said they didn't want to have a referendum vote on it, that they wanted us to go back
00:31 to the employer's side and try to get an improved position, which is what we do.