Random Testing
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Neasden signals flashed like Xmas lights for eight months, until an RMT industrial action threat forced LU and Thales to respond.
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Neasden Depot: Going Up the Wrong Road
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Since Thales installed new software last August, there have been signalling irregularities at Neasden Met depot. You clear one road, and the system clears another one instead!
Service Control Win!
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Service control workers have won some important demands for job security.
Service Control: A Fighting Force!
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LU RMT Service Control workers are urging ‘Vote Yes!’ in the current ballot for strike action.
DMTs to be Trained in Control Rooms
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Trains are trains, and service control is service control, you'd think.
Defend Tony Crump!
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LUL has summarily dismissed Earls Court signaller Tony Crump, for a mistake at work.
Wot No Controller?
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The Waterloo and City line may be a little short, but it still needs controlling like any other line.
Service Control: Fight These 'Restructuring' Attacks
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Service control staff were barely out of one naff 'restructuring' than we faced another. This time, it is all about 'upgrading' to super new control centres.
Corrective Action Plan
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At Earls Court control centre, management have introduced 'corrective action plans'. A member of staff gets so many 'items' and they are hauled off by a manager to 'agree' and implement a plan.
Wot No Service Control?
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The good news is that the RMT leadership has responded to the arguments of rank-and-file activists and agreed to an all-grades ballot against casualisation and de-staffing.