TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
ScotRail: public ownership but no consultation with the public?
Despite promises of a new era under state control, the SNP government backs massive cuts to ticket office hours while ignoring safety concerns and excluding disabled passengers from consultation, writes ANN HENDERSON
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
SCOTRAIL, in public ownership since April 2022, is proposing to reduce station ticket office opening hours in stations across Scotland.
The Scottish government Cabinet Secretary for Transport Fiona Hyslop MSP, in response to a question in Parliament from Richard Leonard MSP last month, advised MSPs that she had considered the proposed changes carefully and was content with them.
“Content with proposals” that have not been scrutinised by the public, proposals that were not shared with the disabled passenger body Mobility and Access Committee Scotland, proposals that will impact on other station facilities such as waiting rooms and toilet facilities where currently provided, proposals to which the trade unions are opposed. RMT has accused ScotRail of misleading the public.
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