Casualisation and de-staffing

Agency staff, security guards, ticket office job cuts, external recruitment, ... London Underground's drive to cut staffing levels and casualise the workforce, and the workforce's resistance ...

Management’s alternate reality?

Once you've worked for LUL for long enough, you learn to tune out the spin management ritualistically churn out in response to every strike announcement.

"We are disappointed"... "we urge the unions to return to negotiation"... and usually, "striking won't change anything." Well, they always say...

When 2s become 1s…

New starter CSA2s on stations are coming out of Ashfield House with a CSA1 license, after just a few weeks of training.

The additional license means they can be used to cover CSA1 duties straight away. No-one should begrudge CSA2s, the lowest-paid grade on stations, the opportunity to earn a bit...

Ballot successful on detrainment fight

The reballot on Bakerloo, District, Central, Hammersmith and City, Victoria and Jubilee lines was successful. Drivers will continue to check their trains before taking them into depots or sidings.

As Tubeworker has said previously, ”While there is a specific safety implication for drivers arising...

Stations need staff

As station cuts continue to hit us all over the Combine two stations with no staff including a terminus could put staff and passengers at risk. Lifts couldn’t operate at either station. If a driver had to take a train into a depot and couldn’t have got a passenger off a train, we’d have been on our...

Trains change plans are attacks on a scale unseen for a generation

London Underground’s "Train Change" plan is an attack on a scale not seen by most drivers in the grade. The last threatened change on this scale was perhaps when guards were ditched or "Company Plan" implemented, both before this writer's time on the job. Other grades have seen such attacks, "Fit...

Minor delays because of...

...Train cancellations. An almost endless update over the radio now particularly on weekends. On 11 March by the time the night turn controllers had booked on there were apparently 69 ONAs on the Picc. Often the service is running with upto 40 but why the big increase? What do management plan to do...

Station closures continue

As LUL’s job cuts programme continues across stations, we’re seeing the consequences of understaffing as stations continue to close due to lack of staff.

Goodge Street and Mornington Crescent closed on 13 February; on Sunday 12 February, Chancery Lane, Goodge Street, Hyde Park Corner, and Covent...

No to Fleet Casualisation

Management are showing how they intend to achieve the 'savings' and 'efficiencies' they are desperate to find - by attacking our job security. London Underground Ltd has revealed its plan to extend the use of fixed-term contracts and non-permanent labour (commonly known as temporary workers). LUL...

Resist Sodexo job cuts

Sodexo, the multibillion pound, multinational outsourcing giant, plans to cut 30 jobs on its TfL catering contract.

It has been cooking up the cuts (pun intended) since late last year, when it won an extension to its contract. Sodexo bosses say TfL re-tendered the contract on the explicit basis of...

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