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A GENERAL election, not another referendum, is the way to break the impasse on Brexit in Parliament, Aslef president Dave Calfe told the annual assembly of delegates (AAD) today.
Mr Calfe welcomed delegates to “the 2019 AAD, our parliament, here in Leeds, city of our first head office, at the Commercial Inn, in Sweet Street.”
He recalled the union’s early days, and how workers organised a structure, “built on regional, not company lines. A branch based, lay member-led, trade union.”
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry
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
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
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