Bakerloo Line

Many station groups are struggling with coverage, because of LU management's deliberate strategy of short-staffing. Now it seems that they are trying ever more madcap schemes for patching up the holes.

On the Bakerloo line, management on groups struggling to cover duties are planning to borrow...

There were extraordinary goings-on on the Bakerloo last weekend, as management decided that they could dispense with the small matter of tripcock safety. Yes, our intrepid bosses decided that a train that failed its tripcock test could remain in service. In other words, a train could stay in service...

London Underground has dealt with Kevin Dobinson's Director's Appeal without any discussion and reaffirmed his sacking by letter!

A Director's appeal involves a meeting between the person's union official and a company Director; the union official outlines grounds why the disciplinary sentence...

RMT is to ballot drivers on the Bakerloo line for both strikes and action short of strikes to demand the reinstatement of Kevin Dobinson, sacked for an aggravated SPAD.

London Underground is trying to establish a regime where they will routinely sack anyone for even the smallest mistakes. They want...

Another driver has seen one mistake leave him out of work - this time, Bakerloo driver Kevin Dobinson.

You'd think management could accept that we all make mistakes occasionally, and that if someone puts their hands up to it and has mitigating circumstances, then a warning or re-training would be...

The Department of Daft Ideas is at it again. Yes, LUL wants to get CSAs to collect fares from passengers who arrive without a ticket. And they want you to do this by carrying an Oyster card and getting the customer to pay their money into a POM and onto your Oyster card.

LUL appear to be...

All sorts of dodgy practices appear to be happening on the Marylebone group, with a distinct unwillingness from management to deal with them.

Examples? Staff doing - with management agreement - more than one double shift in a 28 day period. Staff working - with management agreement - several...

During the forthcoming engineering closures on the Bakerloo line, management have a cunning plan. They think they can send Stonebridge Park station staff to work at Willesden Junction. The minor hitch they seem to have overlooked is that Willesden Junction is not an LUL station. In fact, no LUL...

The story of Elephant & Castle's Northern Line ticket office is a farce. Five years ago it was refurbished. But there was a problem: the new service counter was too low for staff to sit and serve customers in comfort.

Because Brixton station closed at the same time following the discovery of...

Some anonymous clown has put up notices at Elephant & Castle depot showing images from the CCTV recording of the incident that led to Jerome Bowes' sacking. They even had the cheek to append an RMT logo. Ha ha. Given that this recording 'belongs' to management and that very few people have access to...