In The News: Mick Cash Elected RMT General Secretary

Mick Cash has been elected as RMT General Secretary. Mick Cash said:

“I want to thank the membership of RMT for giving me an overwhelming mandate as the newly elected General Secretary. I am proud and honoured to have been given the enormous responsibility of now taking our fighting and militant union forwards, six months after the bitter loss to the Labour Movement of Bob Crow.

“Let me make this clear. There will be no deviation from the industrial, political and organising strategy mapped out by RMT under Bob’s leadership. Our fight on pay, jobs, working conditions, pensions and safety continues on every front and in every industry where we organise members.

“I want to thank the other four candidates for what has been a comradely and hard-fought campaign that has engaged RMT members the length and breadth of the country. RMT stands united and determined in the on-going struggles we are engaged in on London Underground, on the railways, offshore, in the shipping industry and on the roads and buses. This union is in fighting shape for the battles that we know lie ahead.”

The election result was reported across the media.

BBC News: Mick Cash elected general secretary of RMT union.

Rail, Maritime and Transport Union acting general secretary Mick Cash has been elected its leader following the death of Bob Crow in March.

The 54-year-old, who was Mr Crow's deputy for 12 years, said he was "proud and honoured" to be given the "enormous responsibility".

The Mirror: Mick Cash named as late Bob Crow's successor as head of RMT union

Mr Cash, who has been a member of the RMT and its predecessor National Union of Railwaymen for 35 years...Watford-born, he has spent all his adult life in the railways, working as a railway engineer before becoming a union official.

The Guardian: RMT union elects Bob Crow’s former deputy Mick Cash as leader

Cash signalled that strikes were likely to continue as he took the helm of what he called a “fighting and militant union”. He added: “RMT stands united and determined in the on-going struggles we are engaged in on London Underground, on the railways, offshore, in the shipping industry and on the roads and buses. This union is in fighting shape for the battles that we know lie ahead.”

Morning Star: RMT: Bob Crow Deputy Mick Cash Elected As Successor General Secretary

Bob Crow’s deputy was yesterday elected to serve as RMT’s general secretary after the legendary union leader’s 12 years at the helm ended with his untimely death earlier this year.

He has been a member of the RMT and its predecessor National Union of Railwaymen for 35 years.