Tag Archives: ASLEF

Union mergers need democracy

With the RMT and TSSA moving towards a merger, Chris Strafford calls for democratic unity from below in the workers' movement (first published here) “While the railway companies are thus combining their forces, and consolidating their interests, railwaymen have allowed their forces to be split into innumerable sections ...”[1] This warning comes from the May 1911 ...

CS Manchester meeting: ‘A Workers’ Solution to the Capitalist Crisis’

A meeting to discuss the ongoing economic crisis, capitalism in decline and the necessity of socialism. Leading trade union militants will be outlining the fights going on within the trade unions to ensure the fightback against cuts, unemployment and poverty pay is effective. Location: University of Manchester Students' Union, Oxford Road Speakers include: Lee Rock (National Secretary, PCS Independent Left) Peter ...

Striking a chord with TUC delegates

Ben Lewis reports on a successful intervention At last week’s Trade Union Congress in Brighton, a small group of activists handed out Hands Off the People of Iran leaflets and other material, spoke to delegates and visitors, and all in all highlighted the current drive to war against Iran and the tasks of the solidarity movement ...

Train drivers affiliate to HOPI

Delegates to the conference of ASLEF, the train driver's union, voted overwhelmingly this morning to affiliate to Hands Off the People of Iran. This is great news after last week's affiliation by civil servant's union PCS, and shows once again that HOPI's opposition to both war and the Iranian regime is far from 'too complicated' ...