ber of trains run every hour "truly pathetic". They will not even reach levels attained results. This is, of course, no acci- In order to make a The Navigators to be able to develop the full economic potential of their (that is to say currently Renting out represents a far quicker privatised. retum tran coing anything Privatisation has been shown to be an abject failure - putting profit first inevitably meant compromising on saiety, with dramatic What that means for rail workers is graphically highlighted in Ken Loach's new film, former rail worker. Kob Dawber, who tragically died earlier this year Tor To ne from mesothelioma, developed as a result of through the gradual descent of a gang of rail maintenance workers as their workplace 1s Despite their best intentions they find tacaiscies pusaca rom onc new boss ic another, ending up as lump labourers whose first concern is their own much reduced pay packet rather than their collective safety.
Their strong sense of collective strength is This may sound pessimistic, but the film's tragedy is leavened with a strong comic vein. breakingly human terms, you long for the film to have been able to point to some hope The struggle by maintenance workers to defend their conditions, and to unify the industry in public hands is far from over but falls outside the scope of this work.
Nevertheless, as an indictment of rail privatisation Loach and Dawber have produced 3 times addition to the armours of arguments why Labour should stop its plans to sell off London Underground.
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