Labour Research January 2007

Union news

Crow is re-elected

RMT general secretary Bob Crow has been re-elected to his union's top post unopposed. Despite being a controversial figure in the public eye, Crow has been popular among RMT members, and the union has grown by a third (from 56,000 to over 75,000 members) since he became leader in 2002.

And underground worker John Leach has been elected president of the union for the next three years, having taken over from Tony Donaghey whose term has just ended.