LT Health & safety

Radio Taxis, the company LU uses for the staff taxi network, lost their dispatch system on Good Friday after Virgin Media cut through a cable. We had to wait up to 90 minutes for the taxi if we didn't have another way of getting home. The last thing we needed at the end of a shift on a bank holiday...

We all knew that LU couldn't implement station staff cuts without rewriting the LU Rule Book. Changes will come into effect on Monday 28 April... the first day of our next strike.

Worryingly, "The requirement for accessing a station when closed or unstaffed", which has applied to surface stations...

Tubeworker is alarmed to hear that the number of stations with lone working will go from 73 to 122 if the "Fit for the Future" proposals go through.

Incredibly, LU has denied that this will increase risk of assault, only our "perception" of risk.

The risk of assault is not just in our heads...

Cleaners are facing cuts across London Underground. At one busy central London station, the number of cleaners on the station has been cut, meaning the remaining staff have to do more work. They're expected to clean walls and even parts of the ceiling; more physically demanding for everyone, and...

Spare a thought for SAMFs at Marylebone, where the ticket office is intermittently stunk out by a dreadful odour emanating from some part of the station's drainage system. The smell is so bad, it makes it impossible to work in there.

Attempts have been made to fix the problem, but to no avail...

The strike's not even an hour old and one of the company's strike-breakers has routed two trains into a near-collision at Northumberland Park depot.

We all know that using managers who are not properly trained is a safety liability. The unions have said it over and over again. But that matters not...

Today, firefighters walked out for four hours as part of their fight against attacks on their pension rights. According to the employers, it seems that you have to walk into burning buildings until the age of 60 to earn a full pension! And that's despite paying 11 per cent of their wages in pension...

As London experiences a heatwave, conditions in some parts of the Underground become unbearable. Some stations are like a sauna, and Waterloo & City drivers' cabs have no air conditioning.

Our unions must demand action from management. And if we don't get it, it may be time to dust off that...

LU has recently produced a booklet on fatigue that puts the onus on us make sure we're fit for our role. It includes phrases such as 'you have a duty of care towards your employer' to make sure you're fit to carry out your duties.

Hang on! We thought our employer was supposed to have a duty of...

The horsemeat scandal has hit London Underground.

Sodexo, the firm that caters for the LU canteens, has withdrawn frozen beef products across the UK after horsemeat was found.

It's no surprise that the anti-union firm that pays appalling wages should be using bargain basement suppliers to...