Pulling Together

Pulling Together – a popular history of RMT    2013  90 minutes  Platform for Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers’ Union

Made to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the National Union of Railwaymen, which after amalgamation
with the National Union of Seamen in 1990 became the specialist transport union RMT, this film celebrates the union’s
historic 1913 merger and charts the momentous struggles that have taken place since. It covers the 1911 rail strike, the
union’s role in 1926 and the fight against fascism, railway nationalisation in 1947, the Beeching cuts, the 1966 seamens
strike and Wilson’s red scare, Thatcher’s attacks on the unions, privatisation, the 1988 seamens strike, the merger that
formed RMT, expulsion from the Labour Party, the merger with offshore union OILC and the emergence of RMT as the
leading and fastest growing union in Britain. The film argues that the new model of industrial trade unionism the founding
of the NUR represented is as relevant today as it was a century ago.

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