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A UNION-BASHING bureaucrat who promised “punch-ups” with train drivers has apologised — but unions said yesterday his “half-hearted” platitudes had failed to restore their faith.
Department for Transport (DfT) passenger services director Peter Wilkinson said that train drivers who resisted changes to working hours could “get the hell out of my industry.”
According to local newspaper the Croydon Advertiser, he told a public meeting organised by Tory MP Gavin Barwell in the London suburb that train drivers received salaries of £60,000 a year.
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