Everyone loved working on the railway. Not anymore,” says UK rail worker Kathy Mazur. Privatisation and austerity have sparked an explosion in passenger violence, and workers feel unsupported by their managers. “It took 10 policemen to restrain him, to get him off the train,” she says of one dramatic experience she was lucky to survive. “My manager just said ‘you’ll be alright, Kathy, you’re used to these things’.”
4 December 2023, Santiago – The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the democratic, global union federation of over 700 transport unions in 150 countries, representing over 18 million
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My supervisor said you need to carry a plastic container and then use paper. I thought it was a joke until I found no toilets inside the train. Mabu Molele, from Johannesburg, has worked in the
