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We were recently telling you about under-staffing causing problems with getting drivers re-licensed. Seems this affects other grades too.
Out on the Barkingside group, managers have been trying it on with staff, telling them that the company has "done away with" the requirement for 28 days' notice of ATOR and claiming that now you only need 5 days'.
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A TubeLines Site Person in Charge accepted a forged Permit to Enter to a machine chamber at Old Street. The Station Supervisor picked up on it, and the unauthorised person left the station, but TubeLines did not query their procedures on how this had come about.
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The local RMT and ASLEF reps at East Finchley depot have produced a joint leaflet telling drivers about Driving Parameters and their rights at work. This follows a joint newsletter produced by the two union reps last year.
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A Northern Line DMT on a driving day had an aggravated SPAD. He got a 12-month suspended sacking - but was returned to work at his own depot!
How can he have any credibility dealing with drivers ov
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The tragic death of a Northern line driver highlights the important problem of spurious OPO alarms.
The OPO alarm is a crucial warning to the controller that something may have happened to a driver
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At Morden depot, management have come up with another cracking scheme to boost the morale of the workers. Now when you book on, you can look (well, you can hardly avoid looking) at yourself in a mirror, adorned with the words 'Looking Good'. No doubt, management imagine the professional driver slicking back their hair, straightening their tie, muttering 'hello handsome' to themselves and going to pick up their train with a spring in their step.
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Northern Line management are proposing a change, to allow Line Controllers to authorise drivers to apply the rule over the radio. There are two big reasons why we should oppose this:
1. Is the radio actually secure?
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The escalator refurbishment at Tottenham Court Road very nearly didn't go ahead, because Reed Recruitment - who now take care of TfL recruitment - failed to recruit enough staff.
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LUL prides itself on its 'Dignity at Work' policy promising you decent toilet facilities - you know, regularly cleaned, enough bog roll, etc.
It's a shame that this policy doesn't seem to extend to the right to relieve yourself free from being nagged about SPADs. Yes, at Morden depot, sit down for a PNR and you'll find yourself staring at a SPAD poster. Can't we get a minute's peace?!
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Drivers' duties for the new Northern Line timetable are rubbish. There are a significant number of duties which have 4hrs15 on one half, or very close to it - which given the regularity with which the Northern Line runs late, means that people doing these duties will almost inevitably go over hours.
