We need a publicly-owned and run public transport service

Rail bulletin for 30 July 2022

By Bernie McAdam IN RESPONSE to threats over pay, compulsory redundancies and safety, RMT rail workers have voted in favour of strike action across Network Rail and 13 other train companies in the biggest endorsement of strike action since privatisation. Only at GTR did the vote for action fall short. RMT balloted over 40,000 members, […]

P&O Ferries have brutally sacked 800 workers without notice and replaced them with scab crews on less than the minimum wage.

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has won a court case in defence of his plans to bring the city’s buses back into public control

Cuts to London transport funding are a political attack on Labour and the unions

The fight by bus workers for better pay and conditions continues across the country.

TfL is facing a £2 billion shortfall.

Unite is running a campaign amongst members working in the bus industry throughout Britain.

By Tim Nailsea STAGECOACH DRIVERS, engineers and cleaners in Scotland, Chesterfield, Manchester, the North-East, Lancashire and Liverpool and South Wales are all balloting, or have already been balloted for strike action. The issues are broadly the same everywhere. Despite working throughout the pandemic at considerable personal risk, drivers have either not been awarded a pay […]

We need 15% or £15 an hour

Dublin Bus workers have soundly rejected a deal recommended by union leaders