Staffing Levels

Resisting management's attempts to cut staffing levels

Give It A Rest!

Euston Group station staff are sick of not getting 12 hours’ rest between duties.
The 12 hour minimum is sacred.

If we lose it, we lose one of our few guarantees of a little rest or life outside work.

It’s set out in the Stations Framework Agreement. As we said during the Olympics, Framework...

Cleaners to Work on Unstaffed Stations?

Tubeworker hears reports of a mystery figure wandering round stations taking photos - apparently investigating sites for remote booking-on machines for cleaners.

But why, we might ask, would cleaners need to book on via a machine? Surely they book on with the Station Supervisor? Or is there a plan...

Bring Back Detrainment Staff

Earlier this year, LUL management got rid of detrainment staff at the north end of the Bakerloo line, because they reckon that their new inner-car barriers make it safe to carry passengers into sidings or depots.

The consequence? Yesterday, a 12-year-old kid managed to climb out through the...

No AG1s? No sense!

Desperate to save money, LU offered voluntary severance to loads of stations admin assistants, AG1s. Sick of the stress of doing rosters without enough staff, many of them took it, leaving some groups without an AG1 altogether.

Now LU realise they made a mistake and too many AG1s fled. So they...

Faulty Towers

Station staff have been alarmed to see people turning up at their station, not even signing in, and wandering around noting down faults to pass on to the FRC.

While we all like to see faults reported - and fixed - promptly, that's station staff's job, so hands off!

It is not hard to see where...

VIPs Not Welcome at Victoria?

A manager has sent a message round the job telling other stations not to send visually-impaired passengers to Victoria during the evening peak. It seems that the one-way system has made things a bit tricky, especially as, following the OSP, there aren't enough staff to help.

What a disgrace. The...

Defend Detrainment Staff!

LU management are coming after station staff jobs again - this time, detrainment staff on the north end of the Bakerloo line.

Management announced to staff at the end of June that all 38 trains in the Bakerloo fleet are due to be modified, and for some reason they think this means they won't need...

Keep Fighting For Stations Jobs

Since February, station staff have been living with the impact of the OSP job cuts: anti-social rosters and staff shortages. Staff are also learning to live with new attacks, such as enhanced AFM functionality, as the unions have not given any lead so far on how we should resist them.

But we...

Green Meanz Cuts

Station Supervisors are being sent on workshops to encourage all staff to care more about the SIS scorecard (what used to be the mystery shopper scores).

Instinctively, most staff pay no regard to the primary school-like coloured magnets on the whiteboard. While management's worst fear is a 'red...

Stalled Without Staff

Last week, passengers on a stalled train near Putney Bridge had to wait 80 minutes to be detrained. Why? Not enough station staff!

A damaged power cable set fire to a sleepr, causing a track fire. Unfortunately, a train was stalled approaching Putney Bridge on the westbound, and it was not possible...

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