Rail unions

Yes, we should negotiate in the open!

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told an LBC journalist that he would be prepared to conduct live, televised negotiations with the government, saying, "Let's get it in the open [...] The RMT and the trade unions always turn up for any debate. I’ve debated with government ministers in the past on the...

Mick Whelan's "day job"...

Aslef's latest press release, announcing the OT/RDW bans from 31 July to 5 August, contains a disturbing line from general secretary Mick Whelan.

Among other things, he says "...we want a resolution. A fair resolution. That’s why we are taking this action, to try to bring things to a head. Then I...

You cannot be serious...

An update to Aslef members from general secretary Mick Whelan describes the latest offer from the RDG as "risible", and says it "bore little relation" to what Aslef had been expecting following prolonged talks.

Whelan also says: "As you are aware, we had not taken any action while those talks...

Time for a levy to fund sustained strikes?

With RMT members at Network Rail, TOCs, and outsourced cleaning contracts on national rail about to launch further strikes, Aslef members at TOCs and RMT members on LUL having voted to renew their industrial action mandates, and TSSA members at TOCs taking further action too, there's every...

Scargill says: don't cross picket lines!

Aslef drivers on multiple TOCs struck again on 26 November... but alone, without members of other rail unions, which are also in dispute, striking alongside them. Although their action significantly impacted the service, the impact would have been greater had workers struck together. Different...

Aslef drivers vote for strikes: now name coordinated action!

It’s great to see Aslef drivers at Chiltern, Great Western Railway, LNER, London Overground, Northern, Southeastern, TransPennine and West Midlands and have voted for strikes.

Overall drivers voted for strikes by a 9-1 majority, with turnouts as high as 92% . It’s a spectacular set of results from...

An open letter to fellow Aslef drivers: which side are we on?

I'm writing to my fellow ASLEF members around the country to persuade you not to cross the RMT's picket lines in the upcoming strikes over pay, jobs and conditions.

At many TOCs and open access operators, we have been or are in the process of being balloted over pay, one of the three key issues in...

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