Off The Rails Autumn 2008
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The new Off The Rails is now available, covering issues from the economic crisis to Network Rail harmonisation, East Midlands Trains to improving union websites, plus the history of the OILC or
Off The Rails Autumn 2008
Network Rail: Harmonsation and more
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The fight over Network Rail harmonisation stumbles on.
Issues on EMT
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As reported in the last edition of Off The Rails guards at EMT Connect went on strike over Sunday working on the 7th and 14th of June.
Network Rail Signallers
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Extra Time
RMT: Suggested Rule Changes
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Off The Rails will be arguing for a rule change in the unions to give some formal status to strike committees.
The Case For Strike Committees
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As rank-and-file trade unionists, we think it is important to extend democracy wherever possible.
Southeastern Strikes
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Workers on Southeastern Trains are striking about two separate issues - guards and drivers against the extension of dirver-only operation (DOO), and retail and engineering staff against a below-inflat
OILC: a history lesson in organising offshore
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This year, the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) merged into RMT. It is twenty years since the tragedy that prompted the OILC to form.
Fighting The BNP
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500 hundred socialists, trade-unionists and residents rallied in Codnor, Derbyshire, on 16 August, to show opposition to the fascist British National Party's "summer festival" being held on a farm nea
Shhh! Pensions Under Attack
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The unions have gone quite over pensions. This is usually a bad sign. Like Network Rail harmonisation this one could run and run with members kept in the dark most of the time.