Disputes

Reports from disputes as they progress, and assessments of them when they are over.

TSSA to ballot CSM members

TSSA is balloting its Customer Service Manager members across LU for industrial action against the ongoing restructure of the grade, with the ballot closing on 7 March.

The ballot is in part the result of pressure to do something, anything, about the restructure of the grade in which TSSA's LU...

Fight now on 2024-5 pay!

LUL unions remain in negotiations with the company over how to distribute the £30 million of additional funding secured thanks to RMT's threatened week of action from 5-11 January.

Thales workers vote on pay offer

RMT is recommending members working for Thales (GTS), a signalling and communications system contractor with numerous contracts on TfL/LUL, vote to accept the company's latest pay offer.

Last year, workers told their bosses a 5.5% offer for 2024 was not good enough. The new proposal adds a further...

New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online!

The latest edition of our bulletin, collating content from our blog, is now online. Click here to download the PDF.

This edition reviews the recent developments in the LUL pay dispute, and discusses the implications for union organisation on the job. Plus, an update on the ABM cleaners' ballot, and...

CSM restructure is a blow - but we shouldn't defend the former setup

LUL's restructure for Customer Service Managers on stations "went live" on 8 January, prompting some angry responses from workers who felt they hadn't been kept adequately informed of the developments and their implications.

Under the new structure, CSMs can choose between applying for an entirely...

RMT detrainment re-ballot: vote yes to renew mandate

RMT is re-balloting driver members on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, and Victoria lines to renew an industrial action mandate in the dispute over the imposition of "flash-and-dash", the unsafe detrainment method whereby drivers are expected to simply flash in-car...

A lesson for Aslef on LUL?

Tubeworker is a pro-union publication, but we are not affiliated with any particular union on London Underground/TfL. However, we do support industrial unionism - the idea that workers in a particular industry/workplace should be in the same union, rather than organising in separate unions on the...

LUL pay: why we need transparent negotiations

All four LUL unions have now re-entered pay talks with the company, with Mayor Khan's promise of £30m extra funding now on the table. To ensure we get the best outcome possible, we need the maximum possible transparency in those talks.

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