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Heathrow Workers Newsletter No.5 What’s been going on?! If you’ve been a worker at Heathrow over the last year, chances are, you’ve either been through a redundancy process, seen your pay and conditions attacked, lost all your overtime, been on furlough, or all of the above. It has been a unique experience. Previous aviation crises, like the fallout from the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008, while severe, are dwarfed by the sheer scale of the current disruption. It ha...

invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature. Miners in Chiatura, Georgia strike to demand pay increase and improved conditions Over 3,000 workers in the Georgian mining town of Chiatura joined an indefinite walkout on April 23 to demand Georgian Manganese grant a 50 percent pay rise, health insurance and environmental protections for the area near the mine. According to the Governance Monitoring Center, drivers working for the company in Chiatura wrote to the Minist...

UK: Fire and rehire contract deadline nears for striking Go North West bus drivers The strike by over 400 Manchester bus drivers against fire and rehire contracts being imposed by Go North West has reached its eleventh hour, with just over a week until the deadline for mass dismissal on May 8. The strike action, which has entered its eighth week, is one of the longest disputes for over a generation on the national bus network. It testifies to the determination of workers to withstand a vicious ...

invites workers and other readers to contribute  to this regular feature. UK bus drivers’ strike at London United against attacks on pay and conditions London bus drivers at RATP-owned subsidiary London United held a 24-hour strike Wednesday at five depots, the eighth strike during the dispute. The Unite union members are opposed to proposed changes in their contracts including remote signing on, which will leave them around £2,000 a year worse off. The strike hit 52 routes across south and...

invites workers and other readers to contribute  to this regular feature. Belgian private sector general strike against 0.4 percent pay rise cap On Monday, private sector workers across Belgium took part in a one-day general strike against a law preventing average wage increases from exceeding 0.4 percent. RTBF reports the strike affected public transport in multiple cities, and seven in 10 technology companies. The FGTB union reports the manufacturing industry in Wallonia was “practically a...

Transport for London has revealed the 80 routes that will be disrupted due to a driver strike on Wednesday.

Workers Revolutionary Party THERE was a strong picket line at Harrow bus garage yesterday morning despite the pouring rain. London Sovereign drivers were on their third day of strike action against pay cuts and against the attack on their terms and conditions by the French privateer RATP. John Murphy, Unite member and striking driver, said on the picket line: ‘We deserve respect as drivers and we also deserve danger money for working during during a pandemic and putting our...

Further travel updates have been issued by TfL as planned strike action is currently due to affect London bus services again this week.

Further travel updates have been issued by TfL as planned strike action is currently due to affect London bus services again this week.

Bus drivers speak on London strikes: “This is just the spark of a broader fight” A bus driver and member of the London Bus Rank-and-File Committee at London United Park Royal spoke to WSWS about this week’s strikes at RATP Dev in London. “At Park Royal garage overall it was supportive, drivers are willing to prolong the dispute as long as it takes to achieve their aims. The turnout on the picket line has been high. They had to get four agency drivers and they only drove the [number] 18 ...