Workers' Liberty

Well it’s been nearly 4 months since the new rosters were imposed, ahem I mean implemented, on a grateful LUL workforce!

Question: When is a customer-led organisation not a Customer led organisation?

Answer: When that customer-led organisation is London Underground Ltd!

Before listing 13 key mistakes that Tubeworker thinks that RMT made during the stations shorter working week campaign, we need to make a few things clear.

RMT’s stations membership have voted by about 5:1 (1,250ish to 250ish) to accept the deal brokered by LUL management and the union’s leadership.

... as Magnus Magnusson might say.

Vote to Keep Up the Fight

Talk about a rough ride in the press! You’d think we were planning mass murder, not fighting for staff and passenger safety.

It's New Year's Eve, and Bank station is closed, the Waterloo & City line suspended.

The media, both print and screen, gave us a real battering during the station strikes.

So much for management’s claims that displacements would be handled fairly.

Station staff discovered on the strike days that the BTP turn up much more promptly to a picket line than they do to an assault on staff.

Management keep on telling the press that “only” four groups have draft rosters not agreed by local union reps.

They have been at it again. DSMs trotting out that age-old falsehood that it is illegal for probationers to go on strike, and/or that new staff who strike will be sacked.

A really interesting diary of an RMT rep has just been posted on the main Workers' Liberty website.

Dozens of stations are closed this morning as Tube station staff strike again.

LUL is playing fast and loose with safety on our strike days.

The Arnos Grove GSM sent a circular round the group thanking people for working during the strike.

The revolving doors at 55 Broadway are in full spin, as admin staff go in and out to be “qualified” as station staff.

Through the years, we have heard every excuse in the book for scabbing on strikes.

LUL is endangering staff and passengers with its station staff cuts. It is still stubbornly refusing to run proper safety checks on the new rosters.

Click here for an updated leaflet to give out to the public on Sunday and Monday's picket lines.

This time, it's not just the text, it's downloadable.

It is important that RMT explains to the public why we are striking. Passengers have an interest in supporting our action, because we are defending staffing levels and safety.

As of about 7pm, the BBC is reporting the following stations closed: Barbican, Borough, Bounds Green, Bow Road, Caledonian Road, Cannon Street, Clapham North, Clapham South, Covent Garden, East Ham

Well it's New Year's Eve and the day of the strike.Up at 06.30 and have arranged to meet a RMT industrial Rep from another group and head down for the leafleting campaign starting at Functional Counci

So we have reached stalemate and the strike is on tomorrow.Amid posturing from both sides no progress has been made and we have strike action on New Year's Eve.This strike is supposed to be a major ev

London Underground station staff have delivered a whopping Yes vote to industrial action in defence of staffing levels, and will strike for 24 hours on New Year’s Eve and again eight days later.

Many rank-and-file TSSA members want to fight the staffing cuts.

Finally, RMT and London Underground are officially in dispute.

The negotiations over the station staff shorter working week went to directors' level last week.