Tube drivers at Queen’s Park depot who are members of the RMT union have voted by a 99% majority for strikes to stop job cuts, after an active campaign to get the vote out. London Underground bosses want to cut the workforce by around 10%.
Although RMT reps have already won a guarantee that no...
We recently reported on a 44% increase in assaults on Tube staff. In January, a CSA at Lancaster Gate was stabbed (see here for more). With this issue at the forefront of our minds, we were pleased to receive this report from comrades working on the railways in Lyon, France. Although these workers...
Tubeworker hears that London Underground has insisted that union activists stop using the roundel in campaigns. LU doesn't want "its" logo associated with campaigns for a safe, affordable and well-staffed service.
2014 saw the roundel represent an expensive service mostly paid for by passengers for...
Tottenham Court Road ticket office will close its windows for the final time at the end of this week. The ticket office is closing as part of the Crossrail upgrade program, but will it ever re-open?
The drawings for the new station do contain a ticket office, but there is a question mark over what...
From the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts welcomes NUS’s announcement of a national demo in autumn, called for 21 November. NCAFC will be lending its full support to this demonstration, and activists all over the country will be building for...
In 1993 SWP members physically attacked a number of AWL people attending "Marxism" 1993. We demanded the SWP Central Committee investigate the incident. They never replied to the demand, but the SWP didn't do similar again for many years until SWPers trashed an AWL stall outside "Marxism" 2018.
Students have organised a wave of university occupations in the UK in opposition to education cuts and in support of the November 30 public sector strike.
In Cambridge on the 22nd of November students disrupted a lecture by David Willetts, minister for universities and science. Activists...
Unison local government branches have been holding an indicative ballot on pay over the last two weeks. Efforts to pull a large yes vote to take strike action by branch activists was helped by the action taken by NUT, UCU and PCS members on 24th April. These strikes gave a public profile and some...
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