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Boris Johnson Hands Out a Political Punishment Beating for London
21 October 2020
ASLEF, the train drivers' union, has condemned the government's attempt to punish the capital. Mick Whelan, ASLEF's general secretary, said: 'This is a punitive, and politically motivated, move with the privatised train companies getting a bailout from the government but not TfL, which is in the public sector. ...Train driver awarded BEM
20 October 2020
Jolene Miller, of our Darlington branch, who drives for Northern, and who worked selflessly as a paramedic – as well as a train driver – during the first wave of the coronavirus earlier this year, has been awarded one of Britain's highest civilian honours. She is to get a...Government urged not to scrap learning at work
19 October 2020
We are calling on the government to back – not scrap – the Union Learning Fund in March next year. Join thousands of trade unionists in the campaign by signing the petition to the government here. The fund,...Margaret Ferrier MP
01 October 2020
ASLEF, the train drivers' trade union, has called on Margaret Ferrier, the SNP MP for Rutherglen & Hamilton West, to apologise and reveal which services she took after she admitted travelling on a train while suffering from Covid-19. Kevin Lindsay, ASLEF's organiser in Scotland, said: 'Margaret Ferrier...Extension of Emergency Measures Agreements
21 September 2020
The government has extended the emergency measures agreements which ran out on Sunday 20 September. The decision was not unexpected, and comes after the DfT exercised its option on 2 September to extend the EMA at GWR until at least 26 June 2021. Commentators in right-wing newspapers...