Tube unions & politics

Tube trade unions and political representation

Tubeworker online meeting, 21 March, 3pm: 40 Years Since the Miners' Strike

📢 A Tubeworker and Off The Rails public (Zoom) meeting

Thursday 21 March
15:00-17:00

In 1984-5, a strike by mine workers rocked the foundations of the British capitalist state. The strike was a counter-offensive against the Thatcher government’s class-war policy which aimed to smash the labour movement.

The Tube needs proper funding, not Tory posturing

Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall has wheeled out one of her party’s favourite lines, a promise to revoke the nominee passes TfL staff can access for a co-habiting family member or friend.

Hall ridiculously claims that revoking the passes would generate hundreds of millions of additional revenue...

New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online!

The new edition of our bulletin is now online.

We discuss the Tories' "Minimum Service Levels" anti-strike law, and encourage readers in RMT to vote yes in the ballot for industrial action over LUL pay.

Click here to download the bulletin.

Minimum Service Level set: prepare defiance!

The government has set the minimum service level, which must be provided during strikes under the terms of a new law, for the railway.

It's been set at 40% of timetabled services for passenger rail (mainline service) and light rail, which would include LU and the DLR. Anyone who knows the first...

VIDEO: Why LGBT+ equality is a union issue

At our June meeting, co-hosted with our sister publication Off the Rails, we were joined by Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) activist and screenwriter Clive Bradley and RMT rep Cat Cray to discuss “why LGBT+ equality is a union issue.”

August-September edition of Tubeworker now online

The latest edition of the printed version of our bulletin, collating content from our blog, is now online.

This edition features an article on the how the government's anti-migrant rhetoric divides workers. Plus, local and workplace stories, including news on engineering workers' votes for strikes...

New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online

The latest edition of our bulletin is now online, collating content from our blog.

This edition argues that the recent cancellation of strikes by RMT, Aslef, and Unite was the wrong decision, lacking in transparency and democracy. We also feature stories on ongoing disputes across the job, plus an...

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