There is disquiet within ASLEF over the Society's behaviour in the recent pay dispute. In particular, some rank-and-file members are rightly angered by ASLEF:

• Circulating pro formas to members to claim the pay rise before the referendum had even started, let alone finished. It was almost as though the leadership was taking the result for granted!

• Collaborating with management to attack and isolate RMT.
• Accepting the pay offer even though it included the Customer Satisfaction Survey bonus which ASLEF has policy against.

ASLEF members should take their leadership to task about all these things. Union democracy is a crucial issue, and while rival unions perhaps inevitably squabble, lining up with management against another union crosses a line of solidarity.