Workers' Liberty

Our current pay deal on LUL runs out next April, but the fight for a decent new deal must start now.

New Mayor Boris Johnson is to ban the drinking of alcohol on London's public transport.

Duty sheets at Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus are showing loads of duties unfilled.

After several faltering starts, the strike for the London Living Wage for cleaners is planned to go ahead again.

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.

The 2006 Movement Against Precarity – A First Assessment

Over the last few months every edition of the Weekly Worker has carried at least one article about Workers Liberty.

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?".

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.

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.

For the Organisation of the Working Youth

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.

On Our Work in the Lycées – from the JCR's 2008 Congress Second Discussion Bulletin

RMT is apparently moving closer to organising a strike of cleaners demanding better pay and conditions.

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.

A driver writes about the new film 'Three And Out' here.

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.

Full 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.

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.

RMT has indeed called off its strike on Metronet, but not without naffing off a fair few of its own reps and activists.

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?

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!).

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.

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.

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.

Several issues from our recent dispute will now be discussed in ‘joint working parties’ between unions and management ie. kicked into the long grass.

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!

The ink is not dry on the stations agreement with management and they start their old tricks again.

The new issue of our printed Tubeworker bulletin is out now. Download it here.

Here's RMT's Press Release:

Publication Date: April 18 2008

Company fails to provide uniquivocal written guarantees