Our monthly Tubeworker editorial meeting on 20 February heard a report from a comrade whoâd recently visited France during the mass strike wave, as part of a delegation organised by Workersâ Liberty.
Workers in France have been striking against proposed pension reforms. We heard how strikes are...
Sadiq Khan has started the New Year with a leaflet (pictured) asking people to re-elect him because he has kept the cost of commuting down. Fair enough, and here at Tubeworker, we would much rather see Khan reelected than the Tory candidate who plans to nick our Nominee Passes.
But what is that...
Despite voting by a 98% majority for strikes, ABMâcleaners will be prevented from taking legal industrial action by the Toriesâ anti-union laws. Of 620 cleaners balloted, 294 voted for strikes. But because this only amounted to 48% of the total, the result fell short of the 50% turnout threshold...
On 12 December, weâll have the chance to kick the Tories out of government. Tubeworker encourages all readers to vote Labour in every constituency.
Labour is the only alternative party of government. It has its most left-wing policy platform for decades, and a left-wing membership prepared to push...
The recent Labour Party conference in Brighton ratified policy in favour of a four-day, 32-hour week. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell promised that the average working week would be cut to 32 hours within a decade under a Labour government.
In London, we already have a (local) Labour government:...
As chaos in Parliament mounts, workers must take to the streets to protest against Boris Johnson's undemocratic manoeuvring and plans for a no-deal Brexit.
As transport workers in London, we have bitter experience of having Boris as a boss, experiencing his blatant lies about ticket office closures...
According to LU's own figures, the company produces 585,000 tones of CO2 emissions per year. To offset that, you'd need to plant 26,000,000 trees.
Our bosses' solution to this? Encourage staff to recycle and turn out the lights.
Fine, we should all try our best not to be wasteful, but let's be...
School students who have been striking to demand radical action on climate change have issued a call for workers to join them in their next strike on 20 September.
Climate change is one of the most serious issues facing our society. Scientists calculate that we now have around a decade to take...
RMT took the fight against âTransformationâ cuts and the exploitation of outsourced cleaners to Sadiq Khanâs front door today, with a demonstration outside City Hall, organised to coincide with Mayorâs Questions.
Other unions, including Unite and IWGB, had also organised actions, along with...
RMT has called a demo outside City Hall on Thursday 20 June. It demands âno Tory cuts under a Labour mayorâ, pressing Sadiq Khan not to pass on Tory austerity to transport workers and users in London.
The two specific focuses are the âTransformationâ scheme, which threatens thousands of jobs in...
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