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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to the Prince's Trust South London Centre in London
TRAIN drivers’ union Aslef could cut its historic ties to Labour if a motion to its 2022 conference passes.
A union source confirmed to the Morning Star that Aslef’s annual conference will debate a motion to disaffiliate – potentially ending a relationship going back more than a century.
If delegates at May’s meeting in Bournemouth back the move, the union would be the second to sever ties after bakers’ union BFAWU voted to disaffiliate in September, citing a “factional internal war” by the Labour leadership.
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
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
