Dear Colleague,

RMT members vote overwhelmingly to retain the RMT Political Fund

I pleased to advise you that RMT members have voted overwhelmingly to retain the RMT Political Fund with a margin of over nine to one in favour of keeping the Fund.

RMT members voted by 21,319 votes (97.6%) to 528 votes (2.4%) to retain the RMT Political Fund. The turnout was 28.1%.

I would like to thank RMT members for voting in this important ballot and returning such a resounding YES vote.  This result shows that members are very aware of the importance of the union's political campaigning to defend their interests at work.

Retaining the Political Fund is vital for the union to campaign in the political arena on a range of important issues in years ahead, including defending jobs and conditions, improving trade union and employment rights and extending public ownership and investment in the industries our members work in.

Thank you again for supporting the campaign.

 Yours sincerely,

Michael Lynch
General Secretary