I also got this email from the left-wing campaigning organisation the Megaphone urging people to write to their MPs making it plain they support the RMT and the railway strike. As the email points out it’s not just about the train drivers’ pay, but about all the other rail workers and opposing the devastating cuts to public services.
‘David,
It’s the biggest show of industrial power in a generation.
Rail unions are running three days of national strike action to put a stop to devastating cuts to services, staff and conditions proposed by company bosses on million-pound salaries.
When jobs are on the chopping block and livelihoods are at stake, union members stand together to defend each other.
And 50,000 rail workers from mechanics to depot workers, ticket officers and many more need our solidarity tomorrow:
We have the resources and the funding to build a world-class rail system in the UK.
But for two years, this government and the Transport Minister have chosen confrontation over negotiation.
They choose to bail out private companies, while workers in safety-critical jobs face the sack.
They choose to condemn rail unions, when train bosses make millions in profits and cut corners on pay.
They even want to ban the right to strike, removing our most powerful bargaining tool when we have no other means to act.
Everyone deserves better pay, jobs and services. And rail workers are standing up for our safety.
A win for rail workers this week is a win for all of us in the UK who believe in our collective power to organise, demonstrate and win a better future.
In solidarity with tomorrow’s strikers,
Anthony,
Megaphone UK’
I’ve had absolutely no problem writing to my local MP to say that I do, and I support not only the union’s strike, but the fundamental right to strike, which the Tories have always hated and always tried to curb and ban anyway they can.
Privatisation has been a disaster. The rail network needs to be taken back into public ownership and properly funded and maintained, without the profits being siphoned off into shareholder’s dividends and the bloated salaries of the management.
Tags: Conservatives, Cuts, Megaphone, Privatisation, Protests, Railways, Right To Strike, Strikes
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June 22, 2022 at 8:20 pm |
It has been interesting to watch Mick Lynch on various programmes hand the interviewers backsides to them.
Journalists should be questioning politicians etc… (Yes, that includes Labour Politicians)
with facts to hand, any political sympathies should be left firmly at the door.
Let’s not forget that those on the likes of GB “News”, Talk Radio, BBC etc.. are on comfortable salaries, yes, it is supply and demand, but parroting the soundbites of their owners and government ministers gets us nowhere.