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Shadow Rail Minister Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Talks Trains, Turbans, and the Post Pandemic Recovery ASLEFJOURNAL The magazine of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen NOVEMBER 2020 Shadow Rail Minister Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi talks trains, turbans, and the post pandemic recovery The train drivers ’ union since 1880 railway enginemen’ s tax fr ee saver plans tax fr ee savings plans for anyone who works on the railways... we don’ t mean just train drivers..! tax fr ee policies fr om 70p per day , £5 per week and £20 per month for further information call us on freephone 0800 328 9140 visit our website at www.enginemens.co.uk or write to us at Railway Enginemen's Assurance Society Limited, 727 Washwood Heath Road, Birmingham, B8 2LE @RailwayEnginemens Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authorit y. Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authorit y. Incorporated under the Friendly Societies Act 1992 GS Mick Whelan ASLEF Big questions and JOURNAL The magazine of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen ‘This government wants to take away the right to decisions to make challenge any decision’ VERY day we spend the bulk of our time trying to keep pace with the changing regulations and rules of the pandemic and the implications of political E confusion when seeking to apply them to the needs of key workers who are serving the nation and our communities. Debates are going on about circuit breakers or other full lockdowns, and Wales, as I write this, is on the brink of a full lockdown. Elsewhere, whole areas are in tier three and we have different rules crossing all borders and some services travelling through several areas. There are big questions and decisions to be made. Our children need education and young adults need to secure their future but, in my opinion, and in the opinion of many in the education unions, sending kids back to school was always likely to spread contacts, and sending hundreds of thousands of young adults to halls and shared houses was obviously fraught with risk. To then lock News people down and insist on online learning highlights this government’s failings. The government needs to go much further on job protection and furlough; l Tories to axe Union Learn in ‘sly mean move’ 4 piecemeal curfews and the rules on pubs and restaurants will do much more damage l The moment Gillian Keegan killed her career 5 and cost many more jobs and businesses than they save. If we could bail out the bankers plus Off the Rails: Sasha Swire’s diary; Boris during the crisis of 2008 then we have a duty to protect jobs in all other sectors now. Johnson’s toad; Milton Glaser’s I NY t-shirt; It is strange that , whether you voted remain or leave in the Brexit referendum, Brighton & Hove Albion; and Hannah Uttley anyone could believe that any government would put further distress on employers, jobs, our economy, and our future. Remember Boris Johnson’s ‘oven ready’ trade deal? l Train driver Jolene Miller awarded BEM 6 Whatever happened to that? Now the government says it will not adhere to l Eastleigh: close encounters of a Whiffy kind 7 international law or the promises it made in the withdrawal bill. How could any country trust us in the future? That would explain why Liam Fox, an arch advocate of leaving the l Margaret Covid breaks all the rules ‘cos I can’ 8 EU, did not even make the shortlist to head the WTO. I have the greatest respect for our armed forces but the Overseas Operations bill Features that protects those who might murder or torture with some sort of statute of limitations l Pandemic poems on London Underground 10 actually hurts those whose byword is honour and who do their duty. And the Covert Human Intelligence Sources bill will indemnify not just our armed Chris Proctor muses on a world in which 11 l forces but the police and numerous other agencies – including the taxman – from Robbie the Robot is sitting at the controls prosecution for illegal activities. Given the nefarious activities of the police during the l Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Labour MP for 12-13 miners’ strike of 1984-85, the blacklisting scandal, the Greenham Common peace Slough and Shadow Rail Minister, reveals protests, and numerous other industrial disputes and civil rights movements, this bill will his plans for Britain’s railway only encourage undercover officers to illegally target perfectly legal activities. I have no problem with those protecting us from terrorist attack doing certain things, within Gregor Gall on the state of the fourth estate 14 l reason, to create credibility but I hope the Lords do the right thing and reject this bad bill l David Mathieson reflects on the Spanish Civil 15 because our social democracy is under threat. This is a government that wants to take War; and Poaching the Ion Lady in a hot tub away the legal right to challenge any decision – and that is authoritarianism. Boris Johnson made a statement that we need to upskill people for the future. Regulars Then Gavin Williamson and Gillian Keegan immediately announced the end of the Union l Branch Lines 16 Learning Fund. Many Tory MPs were celebrating the end of giving unions money. Maybe they need educating about the projects which were supported additionally by many l Railway art in The Mall 17 unions. Their own figures show that for every pound spent there has been an elevenfold l Obituaries 19 benefit for the economy. We will fight and challenge this lunacy as now is not the time to dilute transferable skills – and the employers agree with us. Letters and Classified Advertisements 20-21 l The future funding of TfL is still under negotiation but I believe there will be a l As the nights draw in curl up with a good read 22 settlement. Curiously, the only government that decided not to fund its capital’s transport now wants to blame ridership in a pandemic on a Labour Mayor? Go figure! l On Track: Some think the US Civil War never 23 Was it not Mr Johnson who, in an act of outgoing spite, cut the monies to TfL when he ended; our Prize Crossword; Legal Services; left office as Mayor of London, and who halted the extension of the congestion charge and members’ Change of Address form into the wealthier areas? Rumour has it that the Tories now want it London-wide and to l Cover photo by Andrew Wiard take free travel away from those who have contributed all their lives, the retired and the young. These are blatantly political moves and cannot be about economic recovery. The EdiToR Mick Whelan, general secretary l dEsigNER Michael Cronin PRiNTER College Hill Press, London, SW19 4HE l AdvERTisiNg ASLEF removal of partners’ travel, and talk of driverless trains, will only lead to an existential Journal, 77 St John Street, London, EC1M 4NN. Contact Keith Richmond battle, not of our making. It did not take long for these people to show their true colours. on 020 7324 2407 or [email protected] l clAssiFiEd Ads It is twenty years since the Hatfield rail crash and we must always commemorate [email protected] or call 020 7324 2400. The acceptance of a display or classified advertisement does not necessarily imply endorsement of those who died and those who were injured as well as the lives of all those impacted and that product or service by ASLEF chANgE oF AddREss Please post strive to ensure it never happens again. It was the end of Railtrack and led to the creation your details to ASLEF, 77 St John Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 4NN of Network Rail who, along with Balfour Beatty, were subsequently fined. A bleak reminder that we still do not have adequate corporate manslaughter legislation in the The ASLEF Journal is published every month by: UK. Maybe it is time, instead of rushing through legislation protecting those knowingly ASLEF, 77 St John Street, London, EC1M 4NN doing wrong, that we look to justice where it is needed. Please be safe and well. Tel: 020 7324 2400 l email: [email protected] website: www.aslef.org.uk l twitter: @ASLEFUnion Yours fraternally, Mick Whelan, general secretary November 2020 l The ASLEF Journal 3 News PM urged to scrap plan We’ll meet again to axe learning at work some sunny day SLEF has and training ASLEF’s Retired Members’ Section has called on programmes, cancelled all events in the immediate future. A the including schemes to The health and welfare of members and their government to back improve people’s families is our main concern and, in the present – not scrap – the Maths, English, and circumstances, I am sure you will understand. Union Learning Fund digital skills, as well as Until we meet again (and we will meet again, in March next year. giving thousands of as soon as it is safe and practicable) stay safe GS Mick Whelan said: men and women the Mick Whelan and and keep well. ‘It is staggering – but opportunity to learn do2 Kevin lindsay Les Muir , RMS secretary perhaps not new skills. (right) condemn the surprising – that Boris Staff at decision to axe the CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED Johnson, just a week CrossCountry in Union learning Fund It is with much regret that we have decided to after announcing Plymouth did a one- cancel our annual district 4 Christmas lunch what he called day sign language west of England planned for Friday 4 December. Hope to see “exciting plans for course, learning became the first you all next year! adult skills and about the difficulties apprentice train Adrian Lunn , district council 4 secretary retraining” has faced by deaf and drivers at Virgin Trains decided to axe a key partially deaf when the company, FRATTON TRAIN CREW REUNION fund which provides commuters when in collaboration with Unfortunately, due to covid-19 restrictions, and people with lifelong travelling on the rail ASLEF Education, and for everybody’s safety, it has not been possible learning in the network.
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