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WOMEN would “think twice” about becoming freight train drivers because of increasing workforce casualisation and the scant facilities on the privately owned network, the TUC women’s conference heard yesterday.
National Education Union delegate Corinne Lamoureux told the conference on International Women’s Day that she visited many depots during her eight years working in the industry as a sales and customer service manager amd had not seen a single female freight driver.
There are only 27 women train drivers in the hugely male-populated freight sector employed in the whole UK.
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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