Workers' Liberty

Bakerloo line management have sacked two drivers in separate incidents.

Neither driver got a fair hearing. The decision to sack Fitzroy Chambers looks suspiciously like an attack on the syndicate, through which drivers get the duties they want, no thanks to management. And Joel has been sacked despite another driver who made exactly the same mistake keeping his job!

In an odd coincidence, LUL's disastrous new "2009 Agreement" has led to the loss of two posts at each of the line's depots, and a reduction in the pool from 10% to 5%. Two posts to go, two drivers sacked? Perhaps it is not a coincidence after all!

Management's project is to get rid of either your job or you. When they want to cut jobs across all grades and locations, the cheapest way to do it is to sack people. Hence, a draconian discipline crackdown in which Fitz and Joel are just the most recent victims.

RMT is balloting Bakerloo drivers for industrial action to demand the reinstatement of Fitz and Joel Vote Yes!