Notts Off The Rails

Notts Off The Rails bulletin - 06/08/22: Tory Strife Is Our Opportunity

Tory Strife Is Our Opportunity

The Tory leader candidates have denounced each other and (implicitly) the Tories' whole record in government since 2010. The new Tory leader will start out as a choice rejected by over half the Tory MPs. We can take advantage of that strife only if the labour movement...

Notts Off The Rails bulletin - 19/06/22: Strike! We Can Win!

Strike! We Can Win!

Our action this week will be the first national rail strike since 1994 and on Tuesday we’ll be going out with LU workers, the first time since 1989. The impact will be massive. The national strikes and those on LU have dominated media discourse since they were announced.

Notts Off The Rails bulletin

Cost-of-Living Crisis: Beyond the windfall tax

Why is mainstream discussion of the “cost-of-living crisis” so shallow, when, for example, an energy company boss says that 40% of households may soon be in "fuel poverty"? The labour movement’s failure to argue loudly for alternative policies, and...

Notts Off The Rails bulletin

Nottinghamshire Off The Rails welcomes RMT's ballot of members in Network Rails and 17 TOCs, and reports on issues affecting Notts railworkers from cleaners to conductors.

Notts Off The Rails

Introducing Notts Off The Rails - a rank-and-file bulletin for rail workers in Nottingham - online here.

Cover Up

Good to see that station security guards have now got the bodycams they’ve been promised for years; bad that it took a serious assault on one of them to achieve it. After that happened security personal were told that they should only observe and report incidents but not to get involved; we hope...

Mind the Gap

It is a depressing fact that although women are 51% of the population only 16% of the current rail workforce is female; this figure falls to a shocking 6.5% amongst train drivers.
A recent report into railway recruitment, ‘Back on Track’, noted that 43% of women rated flexible working opportunities...

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