UK rail cleaners strike against poverty pay
During the pandemic, rail cleaners have braved hazardous conditions to protect the public from infection. But outsourced cleaners have been paid a pittance and were even denied sick pay.
•Lee Blackwood
Lee Blackwood
UK rail unions give de facto backing to “Voluntary Severance Scheme”
Rail unions including the RMT and TSSA claim to oppose the VSS but have done nothing to mobilise workers against it.
•Lee Blackwood
RMT offers fake “opposition” to UK rail industry redundancy scheme
In a desperate face-saving operation aimed at concealing their own culpability, the RMT issued a letter to members claiming to oppose the voluntary severance scheme, despite having signed up to it through the Rail Industry Recovery Group.
•Lee Blackwood