Dues affecting every worker. Toni Gorton and Socialist Challenge railworkers they have no right to manage the industry at the workers' expense. This example of workers' inspiration to millions workers who don't want to submit to the same conditions.
July '82 from a special leaflet on the "human Cost COT Available from the British Society Social Responsibility in Science, 9 Poland concon wi veto is their profits - so they.
of COSLS.
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for to take less worked Rail's railworkers to of this overall scheme.
mean on a particular day, to 45 hours. will start from then.
further And that's follow.
payers' systems hands aren't able to sell what they produce at prices that will guarantee produce less and try to maintain their profits by driving down wages and what's behind the layoffs and redundancies. Workers are forced money tor and to produce more. for this attempt to get abandon the guaranteed eight hour day is part British Rail's flexible rosters that drivers will only be paid for the actual work available with the working week varying between 35 Today any driver working over eight hours a day gets overtime for the extra hours.
flexible rosters drivers will be paid only the basic rate even for the nine hours and 45 minutes shifts, and overtime pay British Rail plans to go even — it wants the work week to vary between 20 to 60 hours!
the model every management will now want to The most profitable parts of British Rail are being sold into private industry. Cratwick Airport Rail Service is Victoriajust the latest in a long line of assets to be put on the market. If the sale goes through a new fleet of electric trains will be built at a cost of t6.Sm; these trains will be operated by BR - paid to do so by private owners.
The profits of this service, built by millions of pounds of taxmoney over the last few years will be in the hands of Thatcher's private investors.
The results of Thatcher and Parker's policies will be two rail one made up money-making routes in private and the other of loss-making public routes.
The Labour Party is drafting manifesto. This should commit the next Labour Government to nationalise and re-nationalise the whole road and rail network. When Labour first nationalised rail in 1947, they paid massive compensation to the private owners. We're still paying today. Next time, private owners should be the ones to lose out, they deserve no compensation. As well, Labour should draw up a plan for major investment.
Duffy, AUEW Chapple of Sapper, Al Drain, NALGO Basnett, GMWU TOOL Jackson, UCW oirs, Inoic Murray