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More than 6,500 South Korean rail workers mounted a third day of strikes yesterday against an underhand government bid to privatise the network.
Rail union KRWU said Korail plans to accept private investors in an intercity bullet train service.
The union points out that the limits on private funds could easily be overturned paving the way for privatisation, mass job losses and fare rises.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry
