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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

Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports are preparing for an international day of action on 6 February to oppose the growing militarization of transport infrastructure, as well as port management’s and governments’ complicity in the genocide in #Gaza.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/

USB
https://www.usb.it/leggi-notizia/27-gennaio-ore-18-webinar-internazionale-i-portuali-non-lavorano-per-la-guerra-verso-la-giornata-internazionale-di-azione-congiunta-dei-porti-del-6-febbraio-1125.html

#Dockers #labourmovement #Mediterranean #organize #Palestine #portworkers #Solidarity #TransportWorkers

The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company ( #Vahed ) independent trade union in #Iran, established in 1958 for #busdrivers in the Greater #Tehran area who work primarily for the United Bus Company.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/12/support-for-the-peoples-just-struggle/

#Ian #LabourMovement #Protests #Solidarity #TransportWorkers #unions

“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/

#AmTrak #Bonuses #Railworkers #Transportworkers

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/pullman-strike-bscp-randolph-civil-rights

1968 #Memphis
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/i-am-man-conversation-william-lucy

#civilrights #labourmovement #organize #porters #Pullman #solidarity #Strikes #transportworkers #unions #workingclasshistory

1969 General Strike https://www.rtbuvic.com.au/clarrie-oshea/

#art #directaction #GeneralStrike #illustration #Labourmovement #organize #RTBU #SamWallman #Solidarity #transportworkers #unions #workingclasshistory

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/minimum-wage-for-gig-workers-in-historic-deal-uber-eats-doordash/106048976

#deliveryworkers #DoorDash #gigworkers #labourmovement #minimumwage #organize #transportworkers #unions #TWU #UberEats

https://overland.org.au/2025/11/when-youre-a-nail-everything-looks-like-a-hammer-working-at-the-most-automated-port-on-planet-earth/

#Art #Automation #Capitalism #Dockworkers #illustration #MUA #Organize #SamWallman #Solidarity #TransportWorkers #unions

(Interview) Sindikat kontrole letenja (SKL), Serbian air traffic controllers Union organisers dismissed after their lawful and successful strike.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2313632/episodes/18109960-serbia-interview-with-skl-union-leaders-ranko-radovanovic-and-igor-hajderpasic

#LabourMovement #organize #Serbia #Solidarity #Strikes #TransportWorkers

Who’s Afraid of Teamsters Mobilize ? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/24/whos-afraid-of-teamsters-mobilize-apparently-the-teamsters-for-a-democratic-union/

About T M
https://teamstersmobilize.com/about

#FromBelow #LabourMovement #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity #Unions #Teamsters #transportworkers #UPS