LUL has not made any money available for staff Christmas parties for two years. And to prove that this is the season for giving, Tim O Toole has put out a memo saying that there will be no more ‘thanks to you’ awards, as the company is in debt needs to save every penny. Brilliant! The millions...
It would seem that despite assurances during the transfer of Drivers from the East London line that they could remain at whichever depot they nominated until such time as the ELL was reopened LUL are now determined to renege on the deal. There are currently plans afoot to disperse them wherever LUL...
Control room staff working for Docklands Light Railway are balloting for strike action at the minute over imposition of rosters. They have worked a 12 hour roster for 14 years. Now they are being told to work 8 hour shifts instead, which will mean working an extra 24 weekends a year. DLR...
The first round of pay talks is looming, and RMT has announced its claim, as follows:
Richard Gallardo, Luis Hernández and Carlos Requena, members of the Unidad Socialista de Izquierda (USI, United Socialist Left) and of the UNT trade union federation in Venezuela have been killed.
According to reports on the Aporrea website, the three men were killed in the early hours of this...
LUL is pursuing its disciplinary action against the 'Kings Cross 7', SAMFs who quite rightly walked out of the ticket office in protest against the deployment of an SRT Supervisor to cover a duty, in breach of the Framework Agreement.
Management are obviously quite appalled by the very idea...
Kings Cross management wanted to bring in a new roster for CSAs, but staff objected because of various issues including the lack of decent rest periods. So management went back to the drawing board, and have come back with a new roster with so few changes that you can barely notice them! And what...
So LUL management want some of us to work on Christmas Day but are only prepared to offer us double pay and one poxy day off in lieu which we would have got anyway?! Scrooge lives on, apparently.
We should also be wary of management using this as the thin end of a wedge the thick end of which is...
Acton Town station staff have been alarmed to receive 'guidelines' on sickness reporting from local management which bear little resemblance to company policy.
As if company policy were not strict enough, Acton Town management have taken it upon themselves to attempt to impose a "regime" (their...
EDF Supply, technicians who take care of faults with the electricity that powers the Tube, took 36 hours of strike action on Sunday and Monday. The action was solid. There was a strong picket line at their base at Tufnell Park and a demo outside EDF headquarters on Monday.
The strike is over...
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