railworkers have a very bleak future.
far short of the mark.
For instance the August issue of the union Transport includes 'Labour's Charter - the way forward' In it, Neil Kinnock has special NUR guard message for railworkers The Charter, he claims, ana now une 'whole community can benefit from a system of cheap, efficient public transport.
And indeed it can. It's true that a massive gramme or investment. as the Charter calls for, is badly needed. And setting basic minimum levels of service would also aid the majority of British people Many of the individual proposals help counter the rapid decline ot the services.
However, to totally reverse the onslaught or jobs and services involves fundamentally challenging young sD member, "new realist" trade union bureaucrat The Tories are dead clear on how they see the rail in dustry in the coming years. If Maggie gets her way, But what about the Labour leadership's transport policies:
times have you heard Kinnoc speaking no behalf of the beleagured railworkers? In fact the alternative that Labour is promoting falk the very logic of our profi motivated Unti we have a government tha puts first the interests o working people and not the profits of the wealthy few, then no job is safe Clearly Neil Kinnock doesn't have anything so basic as this in mind. But tron his vantage point it's fotally unacceptable that backs Charter which ignores the rights, conditions wage levels of railworkers!
Other urgent measures like the nationalisation of all sections of the industry which have been put in private hands — are also absent Today the centrepiece of policie should be 'No to any jot loss on the railways' the Tal workers fight would be enormously aid. if leaders mobilised the members im mediately around the need for a guard on the back of every train.
Gormac Actually I thought -I was being satirical. making a joke...
A JOKE! That explains it! The country is ruled by bunch of COMEDIANS?