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Workplace and TU campaigns / Aslef
7 June 2012
Tyne & Wear Metro strike for improved pay
"Today there's not a single train running on the Metro", one of the striking workers commented as they staged a 24-hour strike
2 May 2012
Pension privatisation: Hundreds of pension staff were forced out of the public sector on 1 May. The government agency that administers pensions of 1.5 million working and retired civil servants became the first 'mutual' ...
Tube strike: RMT strikers picket the London Underground, photo Paul Mattsson
15 June 2011
Tube drivers prepare to strike
RMT tube drivers on London Underground (LU) will be striking on 19-20, 27-28 June and 30 June - 1 July. This is in defence of victimised tube driver Arwyn Thomas...
2 February 2011
Arriva Trains Wales - strike called off
RMT train drivers working for Arriva Trains Wales (ATW) were planning a second day of strike action on 4 February as part of their campaign for fair pay, writes Ross Saunders.
26 December 2010
Boxing Day tube strike successful
Interview with a London Underground driver about the 26 December strike
3 November 2009
Reports from the postal workers' picket lines
Postal workers reported solid support for the strike across Southampton. At Bitterne the mood was particularly determined in the face of an ongoing dispute over drivers' hours that management want to reduce:...
12 August 2009
Aslef members at East Midlands Trains are balloting on the latest company pay offer after ten hours of negotiations led to an offer which the union thinks is an improvement, writes An Aslef member.
London Underground strike by RMT tube workers, photo by Paul Mattsson
17 June 2009
RMT members on London Underground were on 48-hour strike from 9-11 June. This reduced the tube to a skeleton service, staffed by untrained office staff and Aslef and TSSA members who had been told by their...
1 April 2009
Socialist stands in Aslef leadership elections
Train driver Pete McNally is standing for election to the rail union Aslef executive committee, in district number six...
8 October 2008
"Telling the boss: You can't do that"
When I became a union rep a few years ago at my current train depot, it was basically because no-one else would do it, an Aslef member writes.
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