The UK Train Drivers' Union
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Chair of ASLEF's BAME Representative Committee, San Senik, writes for UN anti-racism on the need to think about our words and stand up for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
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The @ardenttheatre production of STRIKE! about the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike in Dublin during the 80s opens on Thursday 13th April. It celebrates a unique slice of Irish history and the extraordinary achievement of 9 working class Irish women and 1 man. ⬇️
Dunnes Stores, Dublin, July 1984. As a South African grapefruit rolls towards the shop till, it will start something that will take nearly three years to finish...
@swkplay
13 April - 6 May
19:30 (15:00 mat Tue & Sat)
INFO & TICKETS:
bit.ly/Striketheplay
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Comment from @MickWhelanASLEF on Avanti contract extension and continued attempts to blame train drivers for the failings:
"It is extraordinary that the government is, yet again, rewarding failure." (1/3)
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"Avanti West Coast has continued to cancel services and, every day, continued to let passengers down. Avanti has become a byword for failure – but the government doesn’t seem to care." - @MickWhelanASLEF
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"If Avanti had done the right thing and employed enough drivers it would not have had the problems that have persisted all through this year. Now the company is conniving with the government to try to impose changes." - @MickWhelanASLEF
aslef.org.uk/publications/av… (3/3)
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The failed Avanti needs to be kicked out of our railway, instead of being rewarded with a new contract.
Ellie Harrison from Bring Back British Rail (@bringbackBR) handed in a petition to Transport Secretary Mark Harper to demand he #KickFirstOut
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MORE from @LouHaigh and @AngelaRayner on Labour's firm commitment to make sure the P&O scandal can never happen again.
#newdeal
independent.co.uk/voices/p-o…
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More ASLEF participation @ITFglobalunion Railway Workers Conference, @SimonWeller moved a motion calling for disability equality to be an organising priority for the ITF. Thank you to the @RTBUnion for also supporting. Proud to say this was adopted by conference
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Elizabeth Cocks, from ASLEF in the UK, talks about the work ASLEF has done to develop and launch a women’s network in her union. Ends her speech with a quote: “once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way”
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ASLEF’s Liz Cocks has today joined an international panel of women railway workers to launch @ITFglobalunion Gender Equality Action Plan. She spoke about ASLEF’s journey organising and engaging with female drivers.
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We are grateful to our international colleagues and comrades for this letter of support for our industrial action this week. Workers across the world stand together in solidarity for our rights at work.
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Our railways are a public service.
It's time to kick out the private profiteers and run our railways in the public sector, for people and communities.
Join the rally on Monday at the Department for Transport ⬇️
Are you an angry Avanti or TransPennine passenger? 🚆😡
Join us at the Department for Transport to tell @Mark_J_Harper enough is enough. No more new contracts. It’s time to #KickFirstOut!
📅 Monday 20 March, 10am
📍 @TransportGovUK, London, SW1P 4DR
👉 kickfirstout.eventbrite.com
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Join the march tomorrow against racism and the far right.
Assemble Portland Place, London, W1A 1AA at 12 noon.
Let’s mobilise the antiracist majority on the streets this Saturday 18 March against #RefugeeBanBill to say #RefugeesWelcome and oppose the Far Right #NeverAgain
Assemble 12 noon BBC Portland Place London. Organised with @The_TUC
#StopTheBill
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🚨 Job opportunity
Closes on Monday
We're hiring for a Political Adviser
Permanent contract / £58,667.04 + London Weighting (currently £3,384.00).
Closing date: Monday 20 March. Interviews will be held in the last week of March.
Details and application form: aslef.org.uk/jobs-aslef
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At @ITFglobalunion congress this week, ASLEF delegate Liz Cocks spoke on the benefits of diversity in our workplaces - both in terms of reflecting the communities we serve but also the resulting improvements in terms and conditions that new perspectives can bring.
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The government had an opportunity today to ease the burden on working people but instead prioritised helping those with the broadest shoulders by scrapping the lifetime pension allowance to help the mega rich.
Once again neglecting the needs of the many.
#Budget2023
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🚆 Cut HS2 'to save money'.
🚗 Freeze fuel duty.
This government's logic is quite something.
#Budget2023
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'Not a single train is moving' - ASLEF's Organiser for London Underground @FinnBrennan on the picket line in Brixton this morning.
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Another #budget for the elite.
£9bn tax cut for corporations and the lifetime pensions allowance abolished at huge taxpayer cost, to benefit the wealthy few.
Nothing to address the devastating real-time decline in pay for the thousands of public sector workers striking today.
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Finn Brennan from the Aslef Union is on a picket line at Brixton Station this morning for today’s tube strike. He tells me why workers are striking @BBCRadioLondon @writtenbysalma #tubestrike
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