Promotion

Battling your way through the Tube's chaotic promotion system

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...

Meet the new boss... same as the old boss?

(Editor's Note: Yes, we know we've used that title before, but it is pretty much the perfect fit for response to LUL's continual shuffling of the managerial deckchairs...)

New "Stations Operations Managers", who've been "appointed on a secondment basis" to "support their respective Senior Stations...

Solid action takes grade consolidation fight forward

The strike action on 26 and 27 November caused widespread disruption across the network. Solid pickets across the affected lines meant bosses were often unable to run even token services. Attempts to run a shuttle service between Cockfosters and Arnos Grove on the Picc soon came to nothing....

Get your own back?

A recent email from an Area Manager calls for volunteers for a made-up local scheme based on LU stuff colluding with the cops to criminalise passengers and some of the vulnerable people we find in our stations. Apparently workers can build a good relationship with the local cops. You don't have to...

Underneath the Sta(i)rs

In what appears to be a personal contract across multiple cover groups, Mariah Carey is the newest member of station staff at Waterloo, Stratford and London Bridge. Although Tubeworker hasn't spotted her on the gateline.

Perhaps the Mayor can ask for some of her reported $520m (Earning only...

New school vs old school?

London Underground is attempting to change the culture on the job. Fit for the Future introduced management into the day-to-day stations environment for the first time. LU has appeared recently to favour recruiting from industries with little culture of union organisation.

It has run recent...

Resist "duty creep", fight for one CSA grade!

LU bosses provoked widespread outrage on Friday, when they uploaded a new document on the role of CSA2s to the company Intranet.

The subject of the document - exactly what CSA2s can and can't do - has been the focus of negotiations between LU and union reps for months, negotiations that were very...

In the Sexism Club?

LUL managers appear to think they are in the TV series 'Life on Mars' as they have woken up in the 1970s (or even earlier) and banned pregnant women from driving trains. They have thrown a particular woman - Kyria Pohl - off her Train Operator training course, and stated that yes, this is because...

Night Tube Drivers Win

Night Tube drivers have won their fight with management for a fair chance at moving into full-time jobs.

They had previously been locked in by a ridiculous rule that they had to stay put for 18 months, fifty per cent longer than the standard one year waiting time to move. As usual, management...

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