Railways
Rail strikers win solidarity in fight for safety
14 March 2017Over half of Northern rail services and 80 percent of Merseyrail services were cancelled on Monday as both firms became the latest to see walkouts by train guards.
Strike northbound as guards keep rolling
07 March 2017The extension of driver only operation (DOO)—central to the strikes on Southern rail—is set to spread to Northern and Merseyrail next Monday.
After Southern drivers reject shoddy deal—unions should turn up the heat on Tories
16 February 2017Southern Railway train drivers have rejected the deal cooked up over ten days of talks by the TUC union federation, rail bosses and their Aslef union officials by 54 percent to 46 percent.
Reports round up—Southern rail dispute, housing campaigns and abortion rights
14 February 2017Why was there no second worker on these trains?: Copeland council strikers confront the fat cat mayor: Fight against eviction threatened by a charity: Now step up the pressure after another Tory attack: New challenges in the battle for abortion rights.
Why did TUC snub Southern guards in talks with bosses?
24 January 2017Striking train guards on Southern rail are furious that TUC-brokered talks between train drivers’ union Aslef and management, which resumed on Monday, do not include their RMT union.
Letters: My story shows why all of us should back Southern strike
17 January 2017What happened to me illustrates perfectly one of the issues at the heart of the dispute with Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR)—Southern’s owner—and the Aslef and RMT unions.
As Tories call for crackdown, solidarity with the rail strikes
19 December 2016"Don't they know it's Christmas?" seems to be the level of the media's debate over the group of strikes set to take place during the holiday period.
RMT members say, ‘this station is non-operational’ as dispute gets serious
13 December 2016RMT union general secretary Mick Cash has slammed London Underground management for allowing London’s tube stations to descend into chaos as a result of job cuts.
Southern rail bosses lose court bid to ban strikes—now workers must turn up the heat
08 December 2016A High Court judge threw out a request from Southern rail owners Govia Thameslink Railway to ban train drivers’ industrial action today, Thursday.
Guards' strike and drivers' action hit Southern rail but bosses run to the courts
06 December 2016Southern rail was hit by a three-day train guards’ strike and a drivers’ overtime ban from Tuesday of this week.
Rail workers protest and look to spread the fight against Southern rail bosses Govia
01 November 2016Up to 200 rail workers from every region across Britain protested in Westminster on Tuesday in support of train guards on Southern rail.
Southern rail strike hits back at bosses
18 October 2016RMT union members at Southern rail struck on Tuesday. It was the start of a further three days of action over safety and the role of guards.
Southern Rail privatisers threaten to sack all strikers
04 October 2016Train guards on Southern Rail faced the sack unless they accepted a new role and agreed to bosses’ terms by Thursday this week.
With Scotrail licked, workers take on Southern bosses over role of train guards
27 September 2016Abellio Scotrail conceded it would keep train guards last week in a blow to bosses’ plans to extend driver only operation (DOO)across the rail network.
Exclusive: union faces £1 million bill for fighting Southern Rail firm
09 September 2016The Aslef train drivers’ union is facing a bill for almost £1 million for daring to fight the firm behind the Southern rail fiasco.
Govia Thameslink Rail workers hope strike won’t face cancellations
30 August 2016Unions are opening a second front against the Tories’ favourite rail firm, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR). It runs the ailing Southern railway franchise as well as Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express.
Take back our trains from the fat cats
16 August 2016Delayed, overcrowded, and expensive trains. That’s what the privatisation rail rip-off has brought us.
Talks break down in Southern Rail dispute
16 August 2016The RMT union suspended a strike by train guards on Southern Railway last Wednesday for talks “with no pre-conditions”.
Bosses in disarray after Southern Rail strike
09 August 2016Train guards on Southern Rail have defied lies and slurs to launch a five-day walkout over safety concerns. Raymie Kiernan reports from the picket lines
How runaway train profits derail safety
09 August 2016Private train firms are wreaking chaos on the railways and making passengers’ lives a misery. Now they want to ram through even more attacks—but a series of strikes to defend safety could stop them in their tracks, writes Raymie Kiernan
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