Reports from disputes as they progress, and assessments of them when they are over.
Following a reps' assembly on 3 November, RMT has announced it is rejected LUL's latest pay offer of 5% for 2023-4, and will prepare for an industrial action ballot to win a better offer.
That ballot needs to be organised with urgency, and accompanied by a vibrant, energetic campaign that harnesses...
DLR workers will strike on 7 and 8 November as they attempt to win a decent settlement on pay and conditions.
They’re employed by Keolis Amey Docklands, the private consortium that runs the DLR on a contract from TfL.
The company’s latest pay offer, for a 5% increase with a one-off £1,000 bonus...
The latest edition of our bulletin is now online.
This edition encourages readers to vote yes in the RMT's re-ballot for action over jobs, pensions, and agreements, and argues for a dispute/ballot on LUL pay. Plus an article on the war in Israel/Palestine, and news on local and workplaces disputes...
Engineering workers employed by the contractor Cleshar on the East London Line, part of London Overground, suspended a strike planned for 12 October, after Cleshar upped its pay offer and made proposals for reducing working hours.
The revised offer doesn't fully meet union demands, though, so the...
RMT’s decision to cancel strikes planned for 4 and 6 October is a serious misstep. Although the threat of the strikes has forced some concessions from LUL, they are not sufficient to justify calling off action, still less to justify formally settling the stations-staffing elements of RMT’s dispute...
This month’s edition of Tubeworker looks ahead to strikes by LUL station and revenue staff in RMT on 4 and 6 October, whilst arguing for further all-grades action.
Download the bulletin here.
Station and revenue staff on London Underground will strike on 4 and 6 October, followed by a week-long overtime ban from 15-21 October.
The strike has been called in response to LUL's ongoing programme of job cuts, and their recent announcement of yet another restructure that will see Customer...
Station staff at Euston have voted to strike against an overbearing, authoritarian management culture. The ballot returned a 93% vote for strikes, and a 97% vote for industrial action short of strikes, on a 73% turnout.
The issues that sparked the ballot are long-running. It's just over a year...
The reballot result on the Tube (23 May) shows turnout up from 53% to 56%, and 97% yes for strikes.
An RMT union all members’ meeting on 30 May will discuss the next steps. Tubeworker has argued that we have to urgently step up our action. That should mean multiple days of all-grades action...
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...
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