Millions of people in Britain today are struggling to make ends meet, worrying about day-to-day living. Yet, as we have more billionaires than ever, and the profits and dividend payouts of Britain’s biggest companies soar, the mass of ordinary working people have been told to endure precarity and insecurity. This obscene situation, we are told, is the natural order of things and that we must simply accept it for the good of the nation. The recent activities of the RMT and other trade unions are a welcome, important rejection of this dismal absurdity. Their heroism offers to the public the very real hope of ordinary working people coming together to take control and exercise some semblance of power over their own lives. Naturally, a tsunami of lies has been deployed to keep workers in their place, including that of stagnating wages fuelling inflation rather than soaring profits. But, as Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey from the RMT have so neatly captured, what Britain is suffering from is not so much a cost-of-living crisis as a low-wage crisis. We are proud to witness this emerging renaissance of trade unionism, and we offer to the RMT, the CWU, Unite and many other trade unions taking action our full solidarity and support, on the picket line and elsewhere. More importantly, we urge all ordinary working people to take control of their destinies, and to join a trade union today. Cllr Aneesa Akbar, Hull
Cllr Hannah Banfield, Oxfordshire
Cllr Jumbo Chan, Brent
Cllr James Barber, Cheshire East
Cllr Matt White, Haringey
Cllr Cheryl Barnard, Nottingham
Cllr Martin Abrams, Lambeth
Cllr Harry Barrett, West Northamptonshire
Cllr Charles Adje, Haringey
Cllr Stan Bates, Wakefield
Cllr Ihtesham Afzal, Brent
Cllr Andy Batsford, Hastings
Cllr Iman Ahmadi Moghaddam, Brent
Cllr Steve Battlemuch, Nottingham
Cllr Parvez Ahmed, Brent
Cllr Caroline Baxter, West Sussex
Cllr Mona Ahmed, Kensington and Chelsea
Cllr Lorraine Beavers, Wyre
Cllr Hassan Ahmed, Nottingham
Cllr Fran Belbin, Sheffield
Cllr Javaid Akhtar, Leeds
Cllr Ben Bellamy, Amber Valley
Cllr Kemi Akinola, Wandsworth
Cllr Sammie Bellamy, Salford
Cllr Imtiaz Ali, Peterborough
Cllr Santiago Bell-Bradford, Islington
Cllr Miqdad Al-Nuaimi, Newport
Cllr Nadine Bely-Summers, Oxford
Cllr Jim Anderson, Bassetlaw
Cllr Lila Bennett, Liverpool
Cllr Majella Anning, Greenwich
Cllr Toby Benton, Kensington and Chelsea
Cllr Ruby Anwar, Pendle
Cllr Ruth Berkley, South Tyneside
Cllr Gillian Arrindell, Westminster
Cllr Paul Bidwell, Bracknell Forest
Cllr Lubna Arshad, Oxford
Cllr Pamela Birks, Carlisle
Cllr Fabiha Askari, Lancaster
Cllr Margaret Birleson, Welwyn Hatfield
Cllr Zainab Asunramu, Bexley
Cllr Alison Birmingham, Norfolk
Cllr Marina Asvachin, Devon
Cllr Hannah Bithell, Leeds
Cllr Cathy Augustine, Conwy
Cllr Mark Blake, Haringey
Cllr Finna Ayres, Southwark
Cllr Molly Bloomfield, Colchester
Cllr Nadeem Ayub, Bolton
Cllr Claudia Boes, Cardiff
Cllr Caroline Bagnall, Shropshire
Cllr Martin Bond, St Helens
Cllr Dave Baigent, Cambridge
Cllr Valerie Bossman-Quarshie, Islington
Cllr Robina Baine, Adur
Cllr Jordan Bowden, Leeds
Cllr Lani-Mae Ball, Doncaster
Cllr Maureen Bowen, Pembrokeshire