17 September 2008
Swansea rail workers fighting for a living wage
SIXTEEN train cleaners, members of the RMT, have been involved in a one-day strike for better pay and conditions at Swansea's High Street railway station. Alec Thraves spoke to RMT rep Ian Fynch on the picket line.
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10 September 2008
Can we have 'the right to travel' - without adding to climate change?
Transport and the environment: The recent collapse of Metronet, which was responsible for maintenance on some London Underground lines, was just the latest disaster in the saga of public transport privatisation, this one leaving public finances to foot a bill of over a billion pounds, Pete Dickinson writes.
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3 September 2008
Swollen profits, suffering patients
TWENTY SIX top cancer consultants wrote to the Sunday Times, attacking the government's health watchdog NICE for denying seriously ill patients with diseased kidneys, four life-extending cancer drugs on cost grounds...
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3 September 2008
London buses: Strikers pack picket lines
I went to Westbourne Park bus garage in west London, during their strike over pay on 29 August. There are nearly 1,000 drivers at the garage and the strike there was solid. I was told that only 20 buses...
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3 September 2008
Fight threat to Ford Transit plant jobs
Ford is cutting production, making contract workers redundant and hanging the threat of closure over their Transit plant in Southampton, writes Nick Chaffey, Southampton Socialist Party.
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13 August 2008
Fast news
California's Terminator: CALIFORNIA'S REPUBLICAN Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lived up to his film role as 'the Terminator' by unilaterally sacking 22,000 state workers and cutting a further 200,000 workers' wages to minimum wage levels...
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23 July 2008
Car taxes add to inflation misery
CHANCELLOR ALISTAIR Darling is postponing his proposed 2p in the pound fuel tax rise scheduled for October, writes Mark Pickersgill.
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22 July 2008
Stop The Gas Price Rip-Off
Household bills set to soar: MANY PEOPLE'S minds were recently jerked away from planning their summer holidays, into a cold and wintry future. The privatised gas and energy supplier Centrica predicted that average gas bills could rise from £600 to over £1,000 in 2010...
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16 July 2008
Bangor: Bus protest
THE WESTERN Mail recently reported that Arriva buses would be buying seven buses from rival local operator KMP and paying them to stop running some of their services. That shocked many people in north-west Wales, writes Iain Dalton.
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2 July 2008
Big oil returns to Iraq
OVER FIVE years since the US invasion of Iraq four of the world's biggest oil companies have signed agreements for repair and technical support in major oilfields in Iraq, writes Chris Newby.
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