Features
Here you can navigate through a selection of ASLEF Journal feature articles. You can also find archived issues of the ASLEF Journal and other ASLEF publications in the Publications section of the website.
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Another brick in the wall
30 July 2018
Steve Williams, a former headteacher, Labour Party councillor and parliamentary candidate, tells the alarming story of the creeping privatisation of English education Mick Whelan is quoted in the May edition of the Journal, sending a message of solidarity to the Fédération Nationale des Cheminots CGT, in its battle with President...Promoting a more diverse railway
30 July 2018
As featured in the ASLEF Journal, Lee James, ASLEF’s equalities adviser, reported on efforts to make the rail industry in this country more diverse: ASLEF has 19,784 active members (plus 2,359 retired members) and 96% of the train drivers in England, Scotland and Wales choose to belong to this...Key worker: Trudy Aarons
26 June 2018
Interview as featured in the June 2018 edition of the ASLEF Journal. Trudy Aarons, one of Britain’s first black women train drivers, has retired after nearly 30 years on the iron road. Trudy, 57, who worked out of Waterloo, has taken early retirement, on ill-health, from South Western Railway....Celebrating women's right to vote
05 March 2018
(Article by Debbie Reay, Chair of the ASLEF women's representative committee) featured in the March 2018 edition of the ASLEF Journal) This year is the 100th anniversary of the successful campaign, led by the Suffragettes, which gave some women the right to vote in Britain. The campaign came...Votes for women
05 March 2018
(Feature written for the ASLEF Journal March 2018) Women had to fight hard – and were arrested, beaten, and force fed in prison – for the right to vote and – like Jo Stevens – stand for and sit in Parliament. Jo, Labour MP for Cardiff Central, and acting chair...