Why are tube workers on strike?
‘The fundemental issue is government failure to properly fund transport for London’
‘The fundemental issue is government failure to properly fund transport for London’
Daily Mail-owned commuter rag implies strike is about holidays. It isn’t.
As tube workers prepare to go on strike over night opening, the TUC warns of the emotional and physical toll that shift work can take
Is it any wonder that the RMT is striking when the majority of Londoners don’t want ticket offices closed?
Is it any surprise that London Underground workers walk out when the media – and the BBC of all places – ignores the issues until there is a strike?
Where is the room in London Underground’s brave new world for disabled people, poor people and non-English speakers?
Calls are once again being made to tighten Britain’s strike laws. However Britain already has some of the most draconian industrial relations laws in Europe.
If you can’t get to work today, you could do worse than head down to a picket line and offer your support, or at least ask a trade unionist why they have decided to strike.
Under Johnson’s proposed rule change strikes with a turnout of less than 50 per cent would be banned; but were that rule change applied across the board Boris himself would be banned from office.