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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
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“Private rail companies have trousered £1.8 billion since 2016”
by The Canary
“Rail union RMT has published the new analysis to mark the first anniversary of the Passenger Railways (Public Ownership) Act.
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The report shows more than £510 million was paid out during and after the pandemic and £190.6 million in 2023/24 alone”