Rail women fight back
Rail workers on fourteen train operating companies, Network Rail and London Underground have been taking strike action over the summer. On the national railway, they are demanding a pay rise to make up for two or three years without any increase, a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies, and no detriment to their working conditions. On London Underground – where there is already a contractual right not to be made compulsorily redundant and workers have had an inflation-plus pay rise this year – they are fighting against job cuts, threats to their pensions, and attacks on working conditions...