Nonsense - ASLEF policy is to have Sundays as part of the working week, and has been since 1995.

Open access gives us a worse railway, reduces local provision and has ensured the failure and withdrawal of several years worth of ECML timetable recasts. First Group do not want us to talk about this.

What ancient practices? Our working arrangements and conditions are completely different under privatisation than they were under BR. I know, I've worked both. #ASLEF

What ancient working practices? Name them. Our working arrangements and conditions are completely different under privatisation than they were under BR. I know I've worked both. #ASLEF

What ancient practices? Our working arrangements and conditions are completely different under privatisation than they were under BR. I know I've worked both. #ASLEF

I've said this before but... What ancient practices? Name them Our working arrangements and conditions are completely different under privatisation than they were under BR. I know I've worked both. #ASLEF

What ancient practices? Name them. Our working arrangements and conditions are completely different under privatisation than they were under BR. I know I've worked both. #ASLEF

We negotiated with the private companies since the 90s to give them the flexibility they wanted and in return we got a share of the productivity savings (that's how negotiation works). What antiquated practices? Name them. #ASLEF

No, the negotiations (on the DfT side) were actually done by a highly respected rail professionals who were industry leaders and previously MDs of private rail operators I know, I was there #ASLEF

What games? Answers on a postcard.

RT Please share our short video in the aftermath of the #DagenhamFire In advance of final Grenfell inquiry report, we expose and challenge the crisis in fire safety across the country. #Grenfell #BuildingSafetyCrisis We demand action on the building safety crisis

TUC Congress delegates and others in Brighton, join our #TUC24 #TUC2024 fringe meeting Tuesday With Nataliya Levytska of KVPU 🇺🇦 Ukrainian trade union + NGPU Plus Liz Snape (UNISON - UK's largest union), Chris Kitchen (National Union Of Mineworkers), Beverley Laidlaw (PCS Union (pcs.org.uk)) + Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social (UCU). Chaired by Mick Whelan

When the Tory government couldn't win, they tried to change the game. Minimum Service Levels laws were nothing more than an attack on working people.

#OtD 9 Sep 1934 over 100k Londoners flooded Hyde Park to protest a rally by fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Mostly was drowned out by the anti-fascist locals, who then chased the police-protected Nazis out of the park. More about the fight in the 40s: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35…

Disappointed I didn't make the running.

Our new and exclusive interview with ASLEF Assistant General Secretary Simon Weller is now LIVE! Listen here: markwalkerg.podbean.com/e/33-exclusive…

Our AGS Simon Weller spoke to RAIL Magazine to highlight the impact that British Steel's closure would have on freight drivers with job losses as well as the repercussions it would have on our railways. “If Scunthorpe goes, Britain would not be able to make rails…"

What would you choose to spend public funding on? The Lower Thames Crossing? or The regeneration of 120 - 600 town centres?

Really proud that my branch Brighton has donated £1,600 to the ASLEF fighting fund in support of our striking comrades on Hull Trains. #HullTrains #SolidarityInAction #solidarity #ASLEF