This resolution, submitted by LU Fleet branch, proposed by Hammersmith & City and seconded by DLR, was passed by the October 2009 meeting of to the Regional Council ...

The collapse of privatisation on National Express East Coast has again vindicated the RMT's position that railways should always have remained in the public sector and that the threatened sell-off of the franchise to Stagecoach will only be a repeat of the original mistake of privatisation.

This branch resolves to urge the executive of the RMT to launch a national campaign to keep National Express East Coast in the public sector, along the lines of the campaign that we waged to keep south-eastern rail in public ownership.The union should issue press releases, produce publicity and call on the RMT parliamentary group to raise an early-day motion.