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Fighting for the future
TSSA’s national rail dispute will only end when a fair deal has been won – our hardworking members deserve nothing less, says MANUEL CORTES
Empty platform and stationary trains at Kings Cross station in London, as members of the drivers' union Aslef and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) go on strike
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When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
THIS year our union comes to Congress fighting for the future of our railways and it is a battle we simply must win.
Our national rail dispute is now several months long and I can tell you our brilliant members remain as resolutely determined as they were on day one. That is a message this shambolic Tory government and the rail companies must start to digest.
We are not going away, that’s for sure. After all we are fight not only for a fair pay deal now for our members who are caught in the teeth of an escalating cost-of-living crisis which has seen inflation run out of control, but to protect their jobs and working conditions in the long term.
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