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Defend RMT reps

RMT reps continue to be sacked in an attempt to pick apart the union.

A ballot will soon start on CBS outdoor to reinstate sacked rep Brendan Judge. He was sacked before Xmas, without evidence, on trumped up charges. Management’s motive is that Brendan played a key role in the successful first...

Five Hours on the Platform?

There is a very good reason why the unions secured an agreement five years ago that station staff should not work on a platform for more than two hours at a time. It's because they are either hot, cold, enclosed, windy, stuffy, noisy, dusty, crowded or otherwise rather demanding.

Not that this has...

Car Park Full

Stanmore station's car park gets pretty full on event days. So an illuminated sign has been installed, with a 'full' visual that is switched on when there are no spaces.

Fair enough. However, some bright spark seems to think that the Station Supervisor should switch this 'full' visual on and off...

RCIs On The Move?

LUL wants to move sub-surface RCIs from Baker Street to Wembley Park.

The only slight problem is ... they don't want to go! Not surprising, as it will mean more travelling for lots of them, and the facilities may not be as good.

Actually, there is another slight problem ... Wembley Park is not...

Cleaners' update

The case against Clara was thrown out.

But Mary's sacking has been upheld on appeal. This mother of one, with no other income, finds herself without a job because she was photographed with her eyes closed on a train - despite the fact that she has an eye injury arising from an accident at work...

Repetitive Strain

It seems that the fantastic shiny new ticket office kit that management installed in the Jubilee Line Extension ticket offices is not all it is cracked up to be. Worse, it appears to be a danger to staff's health and safety.

There has been an alarming number of complaints of apparent Repetitive...

Protest to defend two ISS cleaner reps from sacking

Clara and Mary, both tube cleaner union reps, are both fighting to defend their jobs on Thursday. Clara is the Cleaners' Grade Secretary and was key in making last summer's cleaners' strike happen. The company have come up with trumped up charges to get her out of her job, and she faces a...

Notes on Tony Cliff's autobiography

Notes on Cliff's "A World to Win"
General:
Cliff comments (p.3) that: "Readers may be shocked by the narrowness of my own life story outside politics". That's as may be. But what about the narrowness of his life story inside politics?
After the initial string of anecdotes about Arab suffering in...

New Fares Rip Off Our Passengers

As of yesterday, Tube fares went up by an average 6% - way above inflation, and at a time when our passengers, like us, are feeling the bite of economic crisis.

The Mayor may like to boast that the £4 zone 1 cash fare has been frozen, but that £4 is such a rip-off to start with that it hardly...

The left and the housing crisis

Arch capitalists from the Financial Times to the Council of Mortgage Lenders all now agree that we are in a housing crisis. Mortgage approvals in December have fallen to less than a 5th of what they where 18 months ago and all signs point to a mounting wave of repossessions. This crisis in home...

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