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- Rail companies have closed door on negotiated pensions settlement, unions warn
- 31/03/2006RAIL UNIONS have warned that government and many rail companies have “closed the door” on talks to resolve the pensions crisis in the industry.
- ASLEF targets Paddington in corporate manslaughter protests
- 28/03/2006Fifty members of the train drivers ASLEF leafleted Paddington Station this morning to protest at the government’s failure to introduce meaningful corporate manslaughter laws - despite promising they would be introduced before the election of 1997.
- ASLEF targets Paddington in Corporate Manslaughter protest
- 27/03/2006Fifty members of the train drivers ASLEF leafleted Paddington Station this morning to protest at the government’s failure to introduce meaningful corporate manslaughter laws - despite promising they would be introduced before the election of 1997.
- York tonight for Railway Pensions Campaign
- 21/03/2006The campaign to defend railway workers’ pensions arrives in York tonight (March 21) when the leaders of rail unions RMT, ASLEF, TSSA and CSEU/Amicus join members at a mass meeting at the National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, at 18:00.
- Asda la-vista, baby
- 15/03/2006Sixty-two MPs have backed a parliamentary motion condemning Asda Wal-Mart for “offering employees a pay rise to give up union rights at their depot in Washington Tyne and Wear”. The motion has been put down by the local Labour MP, Fraser Kemp, and has received cross-party support although only one Tory MP has so far backed it.
- Darling pledges for rail future
- 15/03/2006ASLEF EC President Alan Donnelly welcomed a speech made today by Trade Minister Alistair Darling at the business-oriented National Rail Conference in London’s Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Alan said, ‘I have never doubted the minister’s intentions. But I question his ability to deliver the change he wants within a privatised free-market rail system.
- Protests at plans to curb Iraqi unions
- 13/03/2006Iraq’s government is trying to take control of the country’s emerging trade union movement in a move that has sparked protests from a number of British Members of Parliament and the TUC.
- Joint Rail Union Campaign Meeting Venues
- 13/03/2006This is to confirm the venues for the series of meetings to discuss pensions.
- Rail unions renew pensions talks call after Cardiff success
- 10/03/2006The united rail unions - RMT, ASLEF, TSSA and CSEU - renewed their call to the government and rail employers to negotiate an end to the industry’s looming pensions crisis after the ‘standing-room only’ success of their first joint meeting with members last night in Cardiff.
- Women’s TUC elect ASLEF’s Pauline
- 10/03/2006The union is delighted to hear that the Secretary of ASLEF’s Women"s Committee - Sister Pauline Cawood from the Leeds branch – has been elected to the TUC Women’s Committee.
