Workers' Liberty

Drivers are feeling the effects of the woeful 2009 Agreement as management come after jobs.

Yesterday's strike of ex-Metronet signals staff was 100% solid, and even spread to fleet staff who refused to cross picket lines.

Last week, the reaction to unattended packages on London Underground trains hit explosive new levels.

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.

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.

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".

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.

Tubeworker is happy to recommend readers sign RMT's online petition against job cuts and ticket office closures.

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Jubilee Line train maintainers at Stratford Market Depot are striking for pay parity with the Northern Line.

With engineering work on the Northern line this weekend, management's freeze on stations vacancies is seeing some chickens coming fluttering home to roost.

It’s this time of year again and management once again are playing guessing games – will we get our new bonus or not?

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.

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?

Review of Lars T. Lih's Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be done? in context (2008 Haymarket).

A review of Martin Empson, Marxism and ecology (2009).

Very good ballot result from Bakerloo line drivers to defend workmates Fitz and Joel.

TubeLines got a nasty shock last month when the PPP Arbiter turned down its over-the-top demands for funding for the second part of its PPP contract.

Following a two-day RMT strike over the festive season, EDF Powerlink staff have won a 16% increase on overtime rates and a joint working party on pay, and have forced the company to drop plans to tak

Since January 2nd, if you fail to touch in or out with your Oyster, you will be stung for £6! TfL says it's because Oyster is now on national rail. But they must be hearing the cash roll in already.

Last month, there was water ingress at Paddington and the Fire Control Panel did not work. So had there been a fire, the system would not necessarily have kicked in to detect and suppress it.

The £5 minimum Oyster top-up policy came into force on Saturday, and staff have been getting spadeloads of grief.

Bank station has recenty finished phase 1 of its upgrade project. Phase 2 is soon to follow, starting in February or March, with further phases after that.

The station has had additional CSAs to ensure that the extra work generated by the project can be carried out. So you might think that those CSAs should stay on the station for phase 2. But management have a different idea - boot them out and let the SRT do the work instead.

Management are trying to cut minimum staffing numbers at Oxford Circus station - and you can bet that if they are trying it on there, they will try it on elsewhere too. Your station could be next!

The Copenhagen climate talks were an utter failure. But what lessons do Marxists argue climate campaigners should draw from this experience?

Many RMT reps and members are shocked at the union's decision to accept the company's pay offer that until that point it had told us was "unacceptable", and to do so the day after a ballot result in which over 3,000 members voted for action short of strikes against it.

World leaders have converged on Copenhagen, Denmark, for the UN Climate Change Conference; the notional aim is to put together a new global treaty on the climate, possibly to be signed next year and to come into effect when the Kyoto Treaty runs out in 2012.

The new Circle line - confusing for passengers, more work for station staff, forcing passengers to change at Edgware Road (up and down stairs, not easy for people who are mobility impaired, with pushchairs and luggage). The critical position of Edgware Road means that problems there impact heavily on the whole of the sub-surface lines.

Bakerloo line management have sacked two drivers in separate incidents.

Just like us, British Airways cabin crew are transport workers facing attacks on their jobs, pay and conditions.

Readers may have had the delight of perusing management's half-arsed effort to deny - or at least play down, since it wasn't actually a denial - RMT's leak of their job-cutting plans.