RAIL STRIKE: New walk out planned, but there's a twist...

Members of the TSSA union have balloted for strike action just 6 months into the tenure of their new General Secretary...
Right, so rail strikes. We’ve had them before but the strike action balloted for this time is a bit different.
No Mick Lynch this time, we’re not talking about the RMT so sorry to disappoint you there perhaps, Lynch is a competent trade unionist and his union have a great deal of respect for the man, as do many members of the public who have seen him bodying anyone trying to go up against him and failing miserably. No, the union in question is the TSSA, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, a union that had already been rocked by the exposure of bullying and sexual harassment in the ranks, to the point a full enquiry into matters had been launched by Baroness Helena Kennedy, a KC, and the previous General Secretary, Manuel Cortes was sent packing. The reason for the strike action now, is because despite promises to implement the recommendations of the Kennedy Report – which itself followed on from another report into bullying and intimidation, the Conley Report - it hasn’t happened. It appears nothing has actually changed at all despite the election of a new General Secretary, who incredibly, has in the space of just 6 months, driven members to strike again, for all the same reason it appears as before.
Right, so the TSSA are going on strike, rail strikes again, the TSSA are a rail union, but not exclusively so, they represent workers from across the travel and tourism industry and as such represent people from rail to shipping, to IT.
It’s a union that has been mired with problems for a significant length of time as the Kennedy Report showed, the union harboured a culture of sexual harassment, bullying and intimidation of staff, it was so damning, that senior figures were swiftly removed or resigned, the house was supposed to be cleaned out and a new era for the union to begin should have been what happened, but it hasn’t.
Naturally there had to be a new General Secretary elected and the Kennedy Report recommended that this should be someone promoted to that level from within the ranks, someone familiar with the union and it’s membership, their needs represented by the necessary experience. Sadly that didn’t pan out, rather unfairly, those in the TSSA overseeing the process, chose to publicly back one candidate above all others, making a recommendation to members on who to vote for, the establishment choice you might say. The TSSA’s own website still has this advice on it, reading:
‘The process is underway to elect our union’s next General Secretary, it is up to you – our members – to decide who leads our union.
The way we elect our General Secretary has changed for this election, for the first time your Executive Committee has nominated a candidate and is recommending that members vote for Maryam Eslamdoust as the candidate best placed to implement the cultural change that TSSA needs and deliver membership growth and industrial success.’

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