Workers' Liberty

Management seem to think it's OK for a Supervisor to book on at Canons Park at 06:45 but not do a station check until after 10:30.

LUL has sacked London Bridge SAMF Gyles Henry over an alleged incident with a customer.

LUL management have sacked two Canary Wharf Station Supervisors over some missing Kitcats! We kid you not.

Tip to TubeLines. When replacing a defective position detector on a set of points, make sure that you do not replace it with one that is also defective.

As LUL moves on with plans to open the new Jubilee line depot at Stratford, the future for North Greenwich is unclear. The best option for drivers would be to keep the NOG depot, even at a reduced size, as it would avoid displacing people and would give drivers more options as to where to work - particularly important to people who live in south London.

New Jubilee Line drivers have fallen victim to a farcical 'pilot' stock training. Three weeks training has been squeezed into about seven days before the written test, followed by two days before the practical. Trainees whizz through the 14 modules contained in the manual in just five days, at such breakneck speed that it is easy to get left behind.

Jubilee Line management pulled a stunt that they thought would be a nice, attention-grabbing bit of propaganda, but has backfired and upset staff.

They send everyone a DVD, in a packet - not marked with the company's logo or a return address - which also contained a piece of signal cable. The problem was that in many cases, the cable tore through the envelope and stuck out, making it look very much like a letter bomb. Indeed, one member of staff evacuated his family to a place of safety and called the police to open the packet.

Cleaning contractor ISS wants to introduce a system of signing in by handprint at Stratford Market and Hainault depots. The only problem (other than the civil rights implications and the thin end of the wedge) is that the RMT has an agreement with Metronet and TubeLines not to allow this but to run a trial of ID cards instead.

Just to update readers on the situation on Canary Wharf group.

The RMT won a great victory last month by forcing management to re-instate Raj Nathvani and Les Bruty, Jubilee Line drivers who faced the sack in a ridiculously heavy-handed bid to attack the union

"Unity is strength" a phrase key to worker solidarity and maxim frequently used by the RMT.

It is no accident that the Jubilee line has been picked by management for their first major skirmish with the RMT. This is the company's premier line and the line that will be feeding the Olympic stadium and village in 2012.

Tube drivers on the Jubilee Line are to be balloted for industrial action because of the unbelievably unfair sacking of a colleague.

Staff on the Canary Wharf group have had enough of the GSM's abuse of staff. The GSM's actions affect all grades, races and genders. Everyone thinks he is a bully, and enough is enough.

As Tubeworker has reported previously, management have been up to no good on the Waterloo group, where they set up a 'Staff Council' to go round the proper agreed procedures for negotiating and consulting with the unions.

Staff at Canary Wharf discovered to their horror that they were not paid for overtime. It seems that the manager responsible had gone on holiday without making sure that it would be done in his absence.