Trade Union Influence
Although The Socialist Party is a numerically smaller organisation than Militant was in the 1980s, it has a larger number of members in leading trade union positions, including PCS Assistant General Secretary Chris Baugh, PCS Vice-President John McInally, former POA General Secretary Brian Caton, current POA Assistant General Secretary Joe Simpson and UNISON NEC member Roger Bannister amongst others. In 2008, the Socialist Party had 24 members on trade union national executive committees. It is particularly influential in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS).
A number of Socialist Party members have also held key positions in workplaces where disputes took place in 2009, such as Keith Gibbson who was elected to the Lindsey Oil Refinery strike committee and Rob Williams who was trade union convenor at the Linamar car parts plant in Swansea.
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