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Rails in Wales ASLEFJOURNAL MARCH 2019 The magazine of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen Rails in Wales The train drivers ’ union since 1880 Driver Learning Manager , T raining £64k Reading & Bristol Join our team of Great W esterners and you’ll help provide a great service to 100 million customers every year . Y ou’ll also help us make history as we transform one of the world’ s most prestigious rail networks and create a 21st Century service to be proud of. You’ll play an important role in our busy and vibrant Driver T raining and Development team as you develop and deliver training and assessment to drivers and other colleagues across the business. Y ou’ll also ensure that we continue to meet the highest standards, promote and demonstrate good safety behaviour , maintain training records, and give great feedback. Enthusiastic and flexible, you’ll be passionate about development, open to new ideas, and able to inspire your team. T raining or coaching experience is essential, and you’ll already have spent at least 3 years as a main line train driver . You’ll be rewarded with all kinds of benefits, including a final salary pension scheme, free rail travel across the GWR network for you and your family , a company-sponsored healthcare plan and childcare vouchers. We’re unable to accept paper applications or applications via email. Please complete the online application. To apply please visit GWRcareers.co.uk REPTA 2019 DISTRICT 3 & DISTRICT 7 Run for the Railway People WEEKEND SCHOOL by the Railway People 23N24 MARCH 2019 NOT FOR PROFIT BENEFITS ORGANISATION Venue Membership available now! Membership is open to all rail and transport industry staff either active or Royal Hotel Weston 1 South Parade, Weston-super- retired and including immediate family and brings you over 125 years of Mare, BS23 1JP experience and wide ranging members’ discounts and benefits. www.royalhotelwestern.com Benefits: Applications l We have full details on our website www.repta.co.uk and in our l Rooms are allocated on a first comprehensive Yearbook. They include competitive insurance via our come, first served basis. What to expect broker Alan Boswell Group. Obtain a quote before accepting your existing l Applications should be sent to Registration begins at 10am on deal - Direct REPTA Telephone 01603 649737. [email protected] Saturday morning with tea/coffee l All applications are to be and will be officially opened by the l FREE Love2shop Card offering 7% discount at high street stores and received by 1 March 2019 (no General Secretary Mick Whelan at 11.00. once Love2shop registered an opportunity for 4% at Tesco or Sainsburys. exceptions). A buffet lunch will be provided and a hog roast l Please state your name, branch will kick off the social event in the evening. The New for 2019: and contact details when event ends at midday Sunday. There will be l Holiday Inn Bristol: Norway Cruise: Bletchley Park: GX Pillows: making your application. industry and political speakers providing an update on developments on our railway as well Christmas Lunch Cruise: Cockney Matinee: Brick Lane Musical There will be no refunds or l as educational elements suitable for reps and cancellations after 1 March lay members alike. Join today! 2019. Individual membership, please send £5.85 inc. postage & packaging for l Please state how many and Delegate fees and room rates Yearbook. Family Membership: which type of rooms you Delegate fee £10 pp* require and for which days. 2 adults & all children under 18 - £8.50 + £1.75 p&p = £10.25. Please also Single room £30 p/room, p/night (6 available) see our website www.repta.co.uk. Payments Double/Twin £42.50 p/room, p/night Quote name/s, address, D.O.B, telephone & email address to l Cheques should be made Additional rooms are available on the Friday REPTA. 4 Brackmills Close, Forest Town, Mansfield, NG19 0PB payable to “ASLEF”. Telephone: 01623 646789. Please quote Code ASLEF night (at the same rate) if required. l Cheques and cash payments Branches are encouraged to subsidise or pay for YOU MAY ALSO JOIN AND PAY ONLINE AT - www.repta.co.uk will be taken on the day. delegates to attend. *Mandatory BRINGING THE INDUSTRY CLOSER TOGETHER GS Mick Whelan Monty Grayling’s ASLEFJOURNAL MARCH 2019 Flying Circus The magazine of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen RAVELLING around the country attending T branches and meetings I notice a mood of Mick: ‘Failing increasing uncertainty driven by Grayling’s career the shambles this Tory of destruction’ government is inflicting on our industry and our communities with a nonsense Brexit deal that pleases no one – whatever their political perspective. The latest fiasco saw Chris Grayling give a contract to a sea freight company with no ships. 5 11 That contract has now been cancelled at, they said, no cost but, on scrutiny, consultants cost a News whopping £800,000 and the local council stands to l Now MPs call on Failing Grayling to go 4 go down for £2 million. l How Vera star Brenda Blethyn got her big 5 There is a march in London by the POA on break at British Rail plus Off the Rails with Wednesday 20 March dealing with the legacy issues John Major and the Rev Richard Coles from when Mr Grayling was in charge of that department and I imagine that, along with l Tube appeal after vicious attack on driver 6 members of the rail unions, and probation unions, it l ASLEF calls on government to help BTP 7 will be well attended by those who have been beat the violent county lines drugs gangs impacted by Mr Grayling’s long career of political and industrial destruction. l D2 council shines a light on mental health 8 We point to the long, harsh, government- Features sponsored GTR dispute and the impact that had 12 across the rail industry; the £2 billion lost on the l Mick Holder on a new health & safety 10 proposed early termination of the East Coast report from the Hazards campaign; and contract which, in real terms, is even greater as it Nancy Platts on rigging the election rules was terminated even earlier; the cancellation of l Men of Harlech: DO7 Brian Corbett and 11 manifesto pledges for electrification in the East EC7 Andy Hudd on rails in Wales Midlands, TPE, and elsewhere. The knock-on effect of the lack of trains and the timetable debacle on l Welsh government Transport Minister Ken 12-13 Northern and GTR that dented public faith in rail – Skates, Transport for Wales chief executive which would have been a hundred times worse but James Price and Ian Thompson who sits on for the dedication of staff which has never been the general council of the Wales TUC 19 recognised. Blaming rail staff for the high cost of l Fran Boait, PPC for Gloucester, explains 14 fares is reminiscent of the famous Monty Python how GWR has priced her off the railway sketch with workers expected to pay for the privilege of working to support the profits of the l Gregor Gall lifts the lid on the fantastical 15 privateers that do not repay the subsidies they figures of Britain’s big four accountants receive before taking money out of our industry. Regulars And have we heard any mention of executive pay or bonuses being limited? l Branch News, Upcoming Events, Philippa 16-17 I wish Keith Williams well with his rail review, Edmunds on the case for more rail freight wading through the chaos of an industry in terminals and 100 Years of Union 22 meltdown; staff morale has never been lower and l Obituaries 19 employers talk to me, offline, about a total lack of strategic direction. Failing Grayling’s previous Letters and Classified Advertisements 20-21 l history has been routinely overturned: £170 million l Last Word: What the Dickens? Food 22 to put probation right, the book ban for prisoners, glorious food with Oliver Twist unpaid work for benefit claimants, £20 million on a failed tagging system, tribunal fees, legal aid cuts l On Track: Christian Wolmar says AVs 23 that led to the deaths of prisoners, jail contracts are on the road to nowhere; Crossword; with Saudi Arabia; all overturned by his successors Legal Services; and Change of Address or when challenged through the courts. The legacy of hurt by this government – to our The ASLEF Journal is published every month by: industry and our communities – is a matter of ASLEF, 77 St John Street, London, EC1M 4NN public record. It needs to stop. It will take Tel: 020 7324 2400 l email: [email protected] generations to correct but think how much worse it website: www.aslef.org.uk l twitter: @ASLEFUnion 23 would be without the trade unions and civil society organisations who have battled for a better world. EDitoR Mick Whelan l DESiGNER Michael Cronin l PRiNtER College Hill Press, London, SW19 4HE ADVERtiSiNG ASLEF Journal, 77 St John Street, London, EC1M 4NN. Contact Keith Richmond on 020 7324 2407 Yours fraternally, or [email protected] l clASSiFiED ADS [email protected] or call 020 7324 2400. The acceptance of a display or classified advertisement does not necessarily imply endorsement of that product or service by ASLEF Mick Whelan, general secretary chANGE oF ADDRESS Please post your details to ASLEF, 77 St John Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 4NN March 2019 l The ASLEF Journal 3 News Taxi for Failing ORR stats reveal model broken beyond repair GS Mick Whelan has called for ‘root and branch Grayling – MPs reform’ of the way Britain’s railway is run after the regulator’s latest report revealed that HERESA May has faced cross-party passenger revenue has tanked while T calls to dump her Transport Secretary, government subsidy has soared.
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