LUL management have surpassed even themselves, sacking a member of station staff using a completely different company's discplinary procedure. They somehow got it into their heads that because the staff member used to work for Silverlink, they could sack her at a hearing convened under Silverlink procedures, even though our union reps are not trained in Silverlink procedures, she is an LUL employee, and the hearing was held by LUL managers in an LUL building!
The list of blatant injustices against LUL staff is getting longer and longer. Tubeworker has spotted a pattern: these are not isolated incidents, but part of a systematic clampdown and abuse of workers' rights. So our unions need to treat them not as isolated incidents, but as a generalised attack, and respond appropriately. About which more later ...