  the national union of rail, maritime and transport workers (rmt) is a british trade union for transport workers. the rmt is one of britain's fastest growing trade unions, increasing its membership by more than a third between 2001-06,bob crow: workers' friend? and now has more than 80,000 members. ==history== it was formed by a merger of the national union of railwaymen (nur) and the national union of seamen (nus). predecessors of the rmt were among the unions which set up the labour representation committee in 1900. in 2003, some scottish branches of the rmt, affiliated to the scottish trades union congress, voted to donate some of their funds to the scottish socialist party. this led the labour party to disaffiliate the union in early 2004. in wales some branches supported forward wales, led by the former labour welsh assembly member john marek. the rmt is affiliated to the left pressure group the labour representation committee (lrc),http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/links/#affiliates which is named after the original lrc of 1900, and works to restore socialist principles within the labour party. some local branches of the rmt, such as grimsby, are still affiliated to their local constituency labour party (clp). the rmt announced in 2009 that it would be standing a slate of candidates in the 2009 european parliament elections under the banner of no to eu â yes to democracy, a broad left-wing alter-globalisation coalition which aims to offer an alternative to the "anti-foreigner" and pro-business policies of the uk independence party. the rmt applied for membership in the [[world federation of trade 
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