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Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are joined by their families on the picket line outside London Euston in July, 2022.
THE Tory government’s pledge to introduce new legislation to “keep Britain moving” is nothing but another attack on workers’ right to strike, unions charged today.
The warning came after Liz Truss’s under-fire administration confirmed rumours that it planned to force transport workers to run minimum service levels during walkouts, making them ineffective.
The draconian move, expected to come into force next year, follows a series of 24-hour national rail strikes by the RMT and TSSA transport unions, which are demanding better pay, working conditions and job security for their members.
A just transition to Great British Railways and a clean and safe railway for all is not only desirable but also necessary. MARYAM ESLAMDOUST explains
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
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
