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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
9 May 2012
Privatisation pushes up transport costs in Yorkshire
7% and 8%. That's how much bus and train fares went up in West Yorkshire this January, following above inflation increases of 6% at the beginning of 2011 on trains and increases of up to 20% on buses...
1 May 2012
Transport department workers vote to strike over cuts
Civil servants working for the Department for Transport (DfT) have voted for strike action to defend jobs, pay and services...
Bus workers demonstrate over pay, photo Paul Mattsson
11 April 2012
Bus workers prepare to fight for Olympic payment
More than nine out of ten London bus workers in Unite voted yes in a consultative ballot for action last month
100 years since Titanic tragedy, cartoon by Suzanne Muna
4 April 2012
100 years since Titanic tragedy
Prestige and profits still put before safety: The sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912 during its maiden voyage, with the loss of over 1,500 lives, remains one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters...
27 March 2012
Tanker drivers working for five major fuel distribution firms and members of Unite, voted overwhelmingly for strike action over health and safety issues
15 March 2012
RMT calls Budget Day of Action
Rail union RMT is holding a Budget "Day of Action" over government plans to axe thousands of jobs, close ticket offices, jack up fares and give the train operating companies "gold plated" franchises as it implements the McNulty Rail Review recommendations, writes Information from a RMT press release, 12 March 2012:.
15 March 2012
Teachers' strike suspended: After a successful strike in London on 23 February, NUT members in sixth form colleges outside London were due to take a half-day's strike action on 15 March...
22 February 2012
Should socialists support the proposed HS2 rail link?
The debate on the HS2 high speed rail in the Socialist 703 continues with arguments for and against the scheme
8 February 2012
Safe railways, not shopping malls
Craig Johnston, a member of the transport union RMT in Carlisle recently wrote a letter to his local paper challenging the Tory MP's proposals for station buildings...
HS2 - The second high speed line in Britain - government advert
1 February 2012
Debate: Should socialists support the HS2 rail line?
Developing efficient public transport: The second high speed line (HS2) in Britain (the first being the channel tunnel link from London to Paris) would initially connect London to Birmingham by 2026 with a journey time of 49 minutes, writes Mark Pickersgill, Stevenage Socialist Party.
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