Renationalise the railways!
After seventeen years of rail privatisation, and wave upon wave of attack on railworkers’ conditions, the Government has suddenly declared that railworkers are featherbedded. Welcoming the McNulty report, published on 19 May, it has signalled an assault on railworkers’ pay and conditions, with the threat of new anti-strike laws to hand if the unions resist. The truth is not that railworkers have been living in a previously unremarked pocket of luxury. The Government is spending a lot of money on rail in a time of financial difficulty for the state. Big investment projects like Crossrail and...