Stations 35-Hour Week 2004-6

The struggle for the long-awaited 35-hour week for station staff, and how the unions failed to stop it bringing staffing cuts with it.

Displacements – Call this fair?

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

They don’t exactly ask your view on your proposed displacement. Instead, it is down to you to appeal, and you have got a whole 72 hours to decide. That’s plenty of time to think about it, consult your family and other...

BTP: Always there when you (don't) need them

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. At least some of them have the good grace to look embarrassed when they turn up just because LUL management told their bosses to tell them to.

Apparently, the...

2 + 2 = 28?

Management keep on telling the press that “only” four groups have draft rosters not agreed by local union reps. Tubeworker has already made the point that even if it were only one station, it would be right for the union to fight it.

But are the figures right to start with? Tubeworker is aware of...

Underhand Management Tactics (yes, really)

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.

Take it from us: it is illegal for an employer to sack workers for going on strike (within the first eight weeks of the dispute...

Tube strike two

Dozens of stations are closed this morning as Tube station staff strike again. And there is disruption in the train service on at least two lines as more drivers refuse to help management run their unsafe service.

There are many more picket lines than for last week's action.

You can read details of...

Safety Scandal

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

  • Ticket gates in service at unstaffed stations (eg. Oakwood)
  • Scabs doing double shifts or longer
  • Stations kept open by people who did not know their way round
  • Stations with points left unstaffed (Chalfont, Northwood)
  • Trains running...

Many Thanks

The Arnos Grove GSM sent a circular round the group thanking people for working during the strike. Given that only six did, and well over a hundred didn’t, it would surely have been easier just to thank them personally. Except, of course, management don’t really respect scabs at all, they just use...

Clone Army

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

Just as Emperor Palpatine put together a Clone Army, LUL is building a Scab Army. Of course, these troops won’t have a clue what they are doing on a station. But that doesn’t matter...

Strike Breaking

Through the years, we have heard every excuse in the book for scabbing on strikes. The simple fact, though, is that a scab comes to work not because they don’t want a 35-hour week and 10 weeks’ leave, but because they are too selfish, greedy and/or short-sighted to see the consequences of their...

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