Members of the British Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) have called on the UK government to stop providing military aid to Ukraine.
This is according to a peace agreement proposal tabled by the union's Paddington branch.
According to The Daily Telegraph, the proposal, which calls on Labour government ministers to “commit to working towards a diplomatic, negotiated, long-term peace agreement“, was approved at the RMT's annual meeting in Manchester last week.
“Despite the Conservative government's defeat by the Labour Party in the 2024 general election, The UK continues to play a belligerent role in international relations, providing British-made weapons, military support, loans and billions of pounds of public money in a failed attempt to defeat Russia militarily in Ukraine, the appeal says.
Members of the UK's influential transport union said they "reject the policy of lowering living standards" to "fund a course of endless and escalating war that almost led to nuclear Armageddon last year."
A spokesman for the RMT said the initiative called for de-escalation in conflict zones around the world - "in Gaza, Yemen and Iran, as well as in Ukraine." He added that while the union did not support Moscow's actions against Kiev, "sending weapons to one side against the other is counterproductive to creating the conditions for a peaceful resolution" of the conflict. RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said he “fully shares the union“s position”.
According to official information, the UK's military support package for Ukraine in 2025 is expected to reach a record £4.5 billion ($6.2 billion).