JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
IT SEEMS an age ago that the Tories claimed to be the voice of the working class.
Since the fall of the so-called “red wall” when workers lent them their vote to get Brexit done as many saw it, this rotten Tory government has relentlessly attacked workers by slashing services and driving down wages at the height of a cost-of-living crisis.
In the transport sector the government’s so-called levelling-up agenda has involved bulldozing through a wave of cuts not seen for a generation.
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY
But unions warn renationalisation must not be fudged
Our groundbreaking report reveals how private rail companies are bleeding millions from public coffers through exploitative leasing practices — but we have the solutions, writes Aslef Scottish organiser KEVIN LINDSAY



