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Rail companies are using Covid as a veil for cuts
Rogue employers are seeking to exploit the pandemic for their own purposes, warns RMT leader MICK LYNCH
Rail workers rally in defence of train guards in 2019
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
In his fortnightly Borderlands column, MARK SEDDON visits overgrown forts along Offa’s Dyke and reflects on wars past and present
With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) cautiously welcomes the ceasefire, but remains suspicious of US and Israeli intentions
JOHN McINALLY assesses what we’ve learned from the disastrous US war so far
RMT has been warning for months that unscrupulous employers in the transport and maritime industries would use the cloak of the Covid crisis as a cynical opportunity to hammer down on our jobs and wages and in the past weeks that co-ordinated attack has gathered pace.
On our railways, Scotrail, South Western Railways and LNER have all begun mapping out savage cuts agendas that we know will hit jobs.
Network Rail is grinding on with its own plans that we have repeatedly warned will have severe consequences for services and safety. Our pledge to fight these cuts with every tool at our disposal remains top of the trade union’s agenda.
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