WANTED RAIL e WHO NEXT outline the most important.
unions OVER 25,000 ASLEF and NUR train drivers were threatened with the sack if they didn't return to woIK. being drivers would have to sign individual statements management's terms. at stake was the right to strike and the right of trade unions to collectively negotiate and act for their members.
If an entire workforce can be sacked and its then no worker and no union can feel secure. In the USA, sacked all the trollers, their prison in chains and their union PATCO bankrupted. This is what Thatcher and Tebbit are trying to do here.
THE rail industry others has devastated by job 15,000 jobs have gone in the past two years and are still disappearing at the rate of 1,000 a month.
The British Rail to use the six productivity items being forced on ASLEF and the NUR to get rid of 40,000 jobs from all grades in the next five years.
The Tories unemployment as a bludgeon to beat the unions with. They reason that no one is going to fight for jobs. conditions while there are over three million waiting in the dole queue. ASLEF wrong. and BR pulled out every dirty trick against them, including the threat of total closure of the rail network and mass redundancies. But ASLEF members stood firm. THE ASLEF drivers stood united and solid in a strike o reinstated, accepting What was union smashed, Reagan air traffic conleader taken to HEALTH Equality sleep, like many already been stipation loss. Over pain, Board plans accidents, family divorce rate, are using passivity.
safety, wages and better working proved them The government, press work. Pickets at British Rail's Stratford d commuter. But consider the facts.
effect does the present system of shift work mean for the train driver which will be worsened by flexible rostering proposals.
96 per cent of train drivers work shifts. These are the effects:
disruption of body time (circadian rhythms), . sleep loss, poor digestive disorders, gastric and duodenal ulcers, conand diarrhoea, respiratory problems, low back neurosis, cardiovascular disease, chronic tatigue, depression, irritability.
disrupted and lives, domestic friction, strained sexual relations, higher JOSS loneliness, social and political In the interests of health and rail drivers should be working shorter early and late shifts to make a 33 hour week, counting hours worked before 6am and after 10pm as two hours instead of one; the irregularity of shift patterns should be reduced; special facilities should be made available, especially catering, rest rooms and transport to and from Instead BR is proposing to in-
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Defend jobs