Vol.62/No.25 June 29, 1998
Workers shut down London `Tube' for two days
Some 6,000 rail workers on London's Underground, members
of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), above,
struck June 15 and 16 to protest the recently announced
plans of the Labour government to sell it off to
capitalists. "Behind the privatization move is a massive
attack on pay, conditions, and pensions," said striker Alwyn
Thomas at Morden depot. "The strike begins to show we mean
business too," he added. The bosses claimed they had been
able to keep service running, but pickets insisted it was
actually half of their planned reduced service. On June 19
RMT track maintenance workers throughout the country begin
nine days of strike action against concessions demanded by
the rail bosses. Responding to these and other labor
struggles, Peter Lilley, deputy leader of the Conservative
Party, warned his fellow capitalist politicians June 14,
"From bus drivers in Cardiff to firemen in Essex,
Underground employees in London, railway maintenance
workers, and broadcast engineers nationwide, there is a
creeping return to strike action."
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