Transit Paralysis Grips New York as Rail Strike Concludes
Long Island Rail Road service resumes Tuesday at noon after a 3-day strike over fair wages. Thousands of commuters faced travel chaos.
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LIRR service is back Tuesday at noon after a 3-day strike. This is the first strike in over 30 years, causing major travel problems for thousands.
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https://newsletter.tf/lirrs-rail-strike-ends-tuesday-noon/
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Janine Booth former member of the RMT national executive; author of Plundering London Underground: Private Capital and Public Transport 1997-2010 (2013) and Railworkers 200: Two Centuries of Rail Workers and their Struggles (2025).
There is an urgent need for RMT’s rank and file to assert themselves.
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/lessons-for-unison-3
#FromBelow #Labourmovement #privatisation #publictransport #railworkers #RMT #transportworkers #Unions #workingclasshistory
“End-of-year bonuses will now go to 18,000 front-line workers rather than being limited to the executive ranks. This long-overdue recognition of the employees who keep the railroad moving is a step in the right direction,” Mark Wallace, the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen National union, said in a statement.
The announcement comes amid ongoing controversy over the Trump administration’s …
https://fortune.com/2025/12/12/amtrak-bonuses-for-18000-workers-900-apiece/
8th Jan 2003 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10799/anti-war-train-drivers
Source:
Kevin Maguire “Anti-war drivers refuse to move arms freight.” Guardian. 9th January 2003. Accessed December 11, 2021, https://www.the guardian.com/uk/2003/jan/09/politics.military; Liam Turbett “The forgotten Story of How Scottish Train Drivers Tried to Derail the Iraq War.”
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#transportworkers #Labormovement #directaction #solidarity
Socialist Equality Group meeting on #Wellington rail workers’ dispute calls for rank-and-file committee - World Socialist Web Site
The SEG in New Zealand held an online meeting to discuss the need for rail workers to form a rank-and-file committee, break from the union bureaucracy, and unite with workers internationally, following their rejection of a wage-cutting offer from Transdev and Hyundai Rotem.
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