Peter Pinkney

Peter Pinkney is a British trade unionist and was elected president of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) in December 2012.[1] His mandate lasts into 2015.[2] As leader, he has pledge the RMT "will fight for the abolition of capitalism and replace it with a socialist system".[3] He was once in the Communist Party.[4]

In February 2015, he confirmed that he would be standing as a Green Party candidate in Redcar in the 2015 General Election.[5] In the election he came fifth with 2.2% of the vote.

In 2016, Pinkney have signed a letter in The Guardian newspaper alongside Sean Hoyle, Paul McDonnell and John Reid from the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), which opposes the Electoral Commission choosing Leave.EU, Vote Leave or Grassroots Out as the official group advocating for the UK's withdrawal from the European Union in the 2016 referendum on the subject. The letter said that:

We call on the commission not to give taxpayers' money to the Tory and Ukip-dominated Vote Leave, Leave.EU or Grassroots Out campaigns, or any amalgam of them ... We believe there are millions of trade unionists, young people, anti-austerity campaigners and working-class voters, whose opposition to the big business-dominated EU would not be represented by these organisations. ... We call on the Electoral Commission to recognise that a significant proportion of those who will vote against the EU do so because they support basic socialist policies of workers' rights, public ownership, and opposition to austerity and racism.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Senior RMT Officials". Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "New RMT President makes significant contribution to ‘new party’ debate". Archived from the original on 19 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "RMT president pays tribute to Bob Crow". Morning Star. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "From Labour careerists to middle-class Marxists: Peter Pinkney, the union boss and Green candidate". newstatesman.com.
  5. ↑ "RMT Union President: Why I'm standing for the Greens in Redcar". Chronicle Live. 7 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Don’t give taxpayer’s money to Tory and Ukip Leave groups". The Guardian. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
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