Holding Back the Tide
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The recession is seeing railway employers wage full-scale attacks on workers, and a patchy resistance to these attacks.
Off The Rails Summer 2009
London Overground
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Earlier this year, staff on London Overground won an impressive victory, and beat the lie that you can not fight and win during a recession.
East Midlands Trains
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Pre-emptive scabbing by some guards at Lincoln and a capitulatory text from the Norwich guards rep on the company mobile effectively sabotaged the strike action called by RMT for May 1st against East
Fighting and Winning
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Eurostar cleaners at St Pancras International have been boycotting fingerprint booking-on machines since 6 May.
No2EU?
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Off the Rails favours unions backing independent working-class challenges in elections - but No2EU was not such an initiative.
London Midland
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London Midland conductors based at Bletchley, Northampton and Watford took eight days of strike action to demand the right to opt out of Sunday working, but while they forced the company to back off,
Tube / TfL Dispute
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London Underground and Transport for London workers struck for 48 hours from 9-11 June over pay, jobs and bullying.
The Unions and the Slump
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This article looks beyond the rail industry and surveys the unions’ response to the crisis.
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Defend Catering Grades
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TOCs are hitting out at catering, with the loss of buffets, services and jobs.
Marxism at Work: What Caused the Crisis?
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The roots of the current economic crisis lie in the capitalist system itself.