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Pay: The Fight Starts Now!
Submitted on 9 May, 2008 - 10:09
Our current pay deal on LUL runs out next April, but the fight for a decent new deal must start now.
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BoJo Bans Booze
Submitted on 8 May, 2008 - 20:09- Tubeworker's blog
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Uncovered Duties
Submitted on 7 May, 2008 - 19:14
Duty sheets at Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus are showing loads of duties unfilled.
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Cleaners To Strike?
Submitted on 7 May, 2008 - 17:17
After several faltering starts, the strike for the London Living Wage for cleaners is planned to go ahead again.
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Finding Out Facts
Submitted on 6 May, 2008 - 19:54
It seems that on Green Park group, management have added an extra stage to the attendance/discipline procedure. Now, you have a 'fact-finding interview' before being sent to an LDI.
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An evaluation of the CPE movement
Submitted on 6 May, 2008 - 10:28
The 2006 Movement Against Precarity – A First Assessment
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The Cynical Idealism of the Weekly Worker
Submitted on 4 May, 2008 - 18:31
Over the last few months every edition of the Weekly Worker has carried at least one article about Workers Liberty.
Fries With That?
Submitted on 3 May, 2008 - 19:19
Management have a handy hint for ticket sellers. If someone asks for a quid's credit to be added to their Oyster card and tenders a twenty pound note, ask them "Are you sure you wouldn't like more credit than that?".
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Alone On The Gateline
Submitted on 2 May, 2008 - 11:08
Like most stations, Embankment was just about struggling by with the skeleton staffing levels it was left with in the wake of the 35-hour week: in the peak, two CSAs on the gateline, one on each of two platforms.
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Vote Today
Submitted on 1 May, 2008 - 06:04
Make sure you go and vote today. Keep out Johnson and the BNP. Here is what Tubeworker had to say about it a couple of weeks ago.
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JCR Congress - For the Organisation of the Working Youth
Submitted on 30 April, 2008 - 11:16For the Organisation of the Working Youth
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We Have Lift Off
Submitted on 29 April, 2008 - 09:37
Management have had a bright idea - you know, one of those that involves compromising safety in order to keep the service running and the cash coming in.
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JCR document on lycée interventions
Submitted on 28 April, 2008 - 23:18
On Our Work in the Lycées – from the JCR's 2008 Congress Second Discussion Bulletin
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Dig Deep For The Cleaners
Submitted on 27 April, 2008 - 21:16
RMT is apparently moving closer to organising a strike of cleaners demanding better pay and conditions.
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TubeLines Workers Vote For Action
Submitted on 26 April, 2008 - 08:52
RMT's strike ballot on TubeLines has come back with a whopping mandate for action: 266-42 (85%) for strikes, 289-24 (92%) for action short of strikes.
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Three And Out
Submitted on 26 April, 2008 - 08:37- Tubeworker's blog
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Acton Town Drivers To Ballot For Strikes
Submitted on 25 April, 2008 - 06:12
Drivers at Bollo House (Acton Town) have had enough of the management regime in their depot and have asked RMT to ballot them for strike action.
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Solidarity Across The Public Services
Submitted on 24 April, 2008 - 09:31Full support from Tubeworker to the teachers, lecturers, civil servants and Shelter workers on strike today. The 'Labour' goverment treatment of public service workers is a scandal.
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Wot No Station Checks?
Submitted on 24 April, 2008 - 09:11
Management seem to think it's OK for a Supervisor to book on at Canons Park at 06:45 but not do a station check until after 10:30.
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Metronet Strike Off
Submitted on 23 April, 2008 - 08:38
RMT has indeed called off its strike on Metronet, but not without naffing off a fair few of its own reps and activists.
Why Are We (Still) Waiting?
Submitted on 22 April, 2008 - 10:34
Remember management promising to create the grade of SA(CR) coach, so that all those Stations Assistants (Control Room) who have been coaching other staff in the role could actually get some reward ie. dosh?
How Visible?
Submitted on 21 April, 2008 - 09:40
If you have travelled through Kings Cross of late, you will have noticed that staff are wearing orange HiVis all day (and if you work there, you will obviously know this!).
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You Are Driving Too Slowly!
Submitted on 20 April, 2008 - 20:49
Yes, you won't believe this but drivers on the Bakerloo have been told off and told an item will go on their 'HOLISTIC RECORD' for entering Willesden Junction too slowly on the northbound causing the wrong road trainstop to raise and rear trip the train.
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Chavistas try to split UNT
Submitted on 20 April, 2008 - 20:32
Chavistas try to split UNT
Pro-Chavez union leaders backed by the Labor Ministry have launched a new trade union centre in Venezuela – though it is not clear whether they will succeed.
Metronet Latest: Strike Off?
Submitted on 20 April, 2008 - 10:06
It seems that with the mere threat of a strike, Metronet management have suddenly decided that they are able to give guarantees after all, or at least to get their puppeteers at TfL to do so.
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After the casualisation dispute – What next?
Submitted on 20 April, 2008 - 08:37
Several issues from our recent dispute will now be discussed in ‘joint working parties’ between unions and management ie. kicked into the long grass.
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Sunny Stonebridge
Submitted on 19 April, 2008 - 20:17
Management want to transfer the Willesden Junction staff to Stonebridge Park next month. All their propaganda states this. But the staff concerned have not been asked nor their rep consulted!
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Wot no Station Supervisor?
Submitted on 19 April, 2008 - 10:11
The ink is not dry on the stations agreement with management and they start their old tricks again.
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New Tubeworker bulletin out now
Submitted on 19 April, 2008 - 03:45The new issue of our printed Tubeworker bulletin is out now. Download it here.
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48-Hour Strike On Metronet
Submitted on 18 April, 2008 - 16:56
Here's RMT's Press Release:
Publication Date: April 18 2008
Company fails to provide uniquivocal written guarantees
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