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Aslef General Secretary Mick Whelan (centre) joins train workers on the picket line at Euston station in London, February 3, 2023
THE Tories face more humiliation at the hands of trade unions this summer, Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan warned today.
Ahead of his speech at the TUC Protect the Right to Strike rally in Cheltenham tomorrow, Mr Whelan told the Morning Star that right-wing ideologues would not stand a chance against an even more “energised” working class when many of the pay deals struck during last summer’s wave of industrial action run out.
“We’re very much in a situation where this government couldn’t beat the working class, couldn’t turn them over,” he said.
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more