Ticket Office cuts and closures

London Underground's plan to close 40 ticket offices and partially close more, announced in April 2007

Letter: Fighting together

Dear Tubeworker

Working on a station where the Northern Line was running, although other lines were suspended, the strike was a rather dispiriting experience. Passengers were not as abusive as expected, but this was less in a spirit of solidarity with the strikers' aims, and more because they were...

Grief At Greenford

LUL's savage ticket office cuts will even wipe out some of the jobs they created under the stations 35-hour week! Staff who transferred to a location they had been waiting for will now be forced out, and staff who were displaced into them will be displaced out again!

One example is Greenford group...

Luddites?

Management would have you believe that ticket offices have to be closed because of the effects of new technology, implying that those of us who oppose the cuts are some kind of Luddites.

Here at Tubeworker, we are not against new technology (we'd hardly be running this blog if we were, after all!)...

External Recruitment of SAMFs

Fancy an SAMF's job? Then pop down to your local JobCentre!

Believe the bare-faced cheek of it or not, management are actually talking about direct (ie.external) recruitment of SAMFs. Yes, this is at the same time that they are planning to get rid of 270+ SAMF positions and are making it as hard as...

Measuring Up

Does anyone still think management are 'consulting' in good faith about the ticket office closures?

If so, perhaps they can explain why TubeLines have been going round the ticket offices which management plan to close measuring them up for their planned destruction?!

Ticket Offices: cuts will hurt

Management's plan to more-than-decimate our ticket offices continues apace. And there is a real mood amongst rank-and-file workers to fight back against it. Passengers too. A petition put together by staff at Boston Manor has already gathered more than 2,000 signatures. Repeat this across the...

Will Drivers Help Fight Ticket Office Closures?

We all know that Tube workers are strongest when all grades act together. And there are good reasons why other grades should defend the 270+ SAMF posts that are currently under threat. Other station grades will see their workload, and their vulnerability to abuse and assault, increase. CSAs will...

Ticket Office Wipe-Out

Remember management saying they planned to close 40 ticket offices and cut dozens more? Turns out that's only the tip of the iceberg, as it emerges that virtually every ticket office on the Underground is to be cut. Most people would call that 'bare-faced lying'; we could not possibly comment.

What...

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