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Staff are on the customers' side!
Submitted on 9 March, 2010 - 18:25
We at Tubeworker are always saying that our unions should do more to get the public on our side.
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Flowers and Chocs All Round
Submitted on 8 March, 2010 - 12:08
As we all know, these are tough economic times, and we all have to tighten our belts. Jobs have to go, pay restraint must be shown, blah blah blah.
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Wot No Coverage?
Submitted on 7 March, 2010 - 20:34
It seems that London Underground has put the word out round its managers that uncovered duties are to be left uncovered unless it is really really definitely crucial to the station's safety.
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Wot No Plunger?
Submitted on 4 March, 2010 - 12:37
London Underground's destructive urges continue unabated, with their latest effort - getting rid of emergency stop plungers on platforms.
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Twenty-one hours a week - the right to work less
Submitted on 23 February, 2010 - 21:16
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) has published a report calling for a large reduction on the working week – to around 21 hours.
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New Tubeworker out now
Submitted on 22 February, 2010 - 13:46The new issue of our printed Tubeworker bulletin is available now. Click here to download it.
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“Yes, of course I’ll top up your Oyster for £2.50, because …
Submitted on 22 February, 2010 - 13:43
- “You’ve only got £2.50 on you.”
- “You only need £2.50 to make the journey you want to make.”
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Night Time Noise
Submitted on 19 February, 2010 - 11:31
Local Loughton residents are having trouble sleeping at night as the works are incredibly loud. Mega-decibel drilling has sent them to their phones and emails, and complaints are flooding in.
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Inflation Up
Submitted on 19 February, 2010 - 11:28
Some people are getting quite excited about the rapidly-increasing inflation figures. After all, if the February RPI figure (published next month) is, say, 3.5%, then we will get a 4% pay rise.
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SIS: A Sinister Agenda?
Submitted on 18 February, 2010 - 10:53
Thankfully, strong union representation has reined in some of the worst abuses of the SIS / mystery snooper survey.
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Signals Victory
Submitted on 13 February, 2010 - 10:54
It looks like there has been a win for signal maintenance staff, who are no longer under threat of imposed weekend working.
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Underground Overground
Submitted on 12 February, 2010 - 19:01
The East London Line is due to reopen soon, newly-privatised and rebranded as London Overground.
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All Change, Please
Submitted on 12 February, 2010 - 18:59
Loughton station now has a hoarding along the length of platform 3.
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Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
Submitted on 10 February, 2010 - 19:17
Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
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2009 Agreement Sees Drivers Forced Off Roster
Submitted on 9 February, 2010 - 10:05
Drivers are feeling the effects of the woeful 2009 Agreement as management come after jobs.
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Solid Signals Strike
Submitted on 6 February, 2010 - 18:28
Yesterday's strike of ex-Metronet signals staff was 100% solid, and even spread to fleet staff who refused to cross picket lines.
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Bang!
Submitted on 2 February, 2010 - 08:43
Last week, the reaction to unattended packages on London Underground trains hit explosive new levels.
Jezza Will Fix It
Submitted on 31 January, 2010 - 10:05
It’s all fun in Travel Information land because we are getting very interesting calls about the minimum £5 top up charge at booking offices.
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Only workers can build the planetary Ark
Submitted on 31 January, 2010 - 07:17
In the preposterous film 2012, solar flares cause the earth’s tectonic plates to move, resulting in ecological catastrophe. The ruling classes respond by building a number of modern Arks, so that the best of humanity will survive the apocalypse and begin again. Reflecting existing divisions, the main states all build separate Arks, and allow the extremely wealthy to buy tickets for themselves, so that they can pick up business as usual.
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New 'Tubeworker' out now
Submitted on 26 January, 2010 - 19:02The new issue of our printed Tubeworker bulletin is out now. Click here to download it.
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Freudian Slip?
Submitted on 26 January, 2010 - 16:37
It seems that a big cheese manager, keen to bolster staff morale, was careless enough to describe the Piccadilly line as the "workhouse" of the Underground when he surely meant the "workhorse".
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Signalling Our Strength
Submitted on 26 January, 2010 - 16:21
A stonkingly high Yes vote for industrial action has shown that signal technicians are well up for a fight against management's attempts to impose new, anti-social rosters.
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Sign This!
Submitted on 26 January, 2010 - 09:53
Tubeworker is happy to recommend readers sign RMT's online petition against job cuts and ticket office closures.
Click here.
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Action at Alstom
Submitted on 26 January, 2010 - 09:07
Jubilee Line train maintainers at Stratford Market Depot are striking for pay parity with the Northern Line.
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Situations Vacant
Submitted on 23 January, 2010 - 14:09
With engineering work on the Northern line this weekend, management's freeze on stations vacancies is seeing some chickens coming fluttering home to roost.
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Bonus balls up – again!
Submitted on 23 January, 2010 - 12:02
It’s this time of year again and management once again are playing guessing games – will we get our new bonus or not?
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Wot No Trousers?!
Submitted on 22 January, 2010 - 16:45
We all know that mystery shopper results bear no relation to the hard work we do. But here’s an example that shows just how meaningless they are.
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Staff Resist £5 Minimum
Submitted on 20 January, 2010 - 09:30
Across the job, staff are happily ignoring London Underground's £5 minimum Oyster top-up policy. After all, who wants grief from understandably-annoyed cusomters?
What to do with 'What is to be done?'
Submitted on 19 January, 2010 - 20:16
Review of Lars T. Lih's Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be done? in context (2008 Haymarket).
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