Tube Lines

Tube Lines' 'performance' and workers' demands for better conditions

TubeLines Ballot For Allowances

It's two years since the last pay deal on TubeLines. That deal included a commitment to negotiate the payment of allowances to workers undertaking Protection Master and Site Person In Charge duties.

Two years of tedious waffle later, the company still reckons £600 quid will do, while RMT rightly...

Falling apart around our ears

A CSA at Euston station was standing on the gateline, when a ceiling tile landed on his head!

The ceiling tiles have been disturbed and replaced by mesh to access the electrics - part of the upgrade at Euston station, for which TubeLines are being paid millions. As well as the dingy environment...

ERU Depot Closure

TubeLines is threatening to close the ERU's Tottenham depot, with staff displaced elsewhere. Not good if you live locally and want to carry on working there!

RMT has declared its intention to oppose this, so let's hope it does - with action if words don't work. After all, this is a small...

Defective Infraco

Tip to TubeLines. When replacing a defective position detector on a set of points, make sure that you do not replace it with one that is also defective.

Otherwise, you might get a situation like you did the other day - the north end of the Jubilee line suspended not just once but twice, when...

It's Not Just Metronet ...

Just when we were being encouraged to believe that there is nothing wrong with PPP as a concept, just that Metronet are a particularly dodgy company, along comes a reminder that Tubelines, also, are capable of fouling things up.

They are responsible for upgrading the ticket hall at Euston station...

Trail of Destruction

Metronet gets most of the headlines for incompetence, but let us not forget TubeLines.

  • Last week at Chalk Farm, contractors working overnight booked off and left the signals failing at the start of traffic.
  • At Warren Street, overnight contractors concreted over a trainstop, shorting out a track...

Permit to Enter?

A TubeLines Site Person in Charge accepted a forged Permit to Enter to a machine chamber at Old Street. The Station Supervisor picked up on it, and the unauthorised person left the station, but TubeLines did not query their procedures on how this had come about.

Under the new Rule Book, Station...

Clean Your Own Station?

Night cleaners have been removed on the Central line and District line. These cleaners work for ISS, the same company that is trying to lay off 200 cleaners on TubeLines contracts at the moment - a move that RMT is fighting.

An example of how cleaners' cutbacks affect us all is that cold weather...

TubeLines To Cull Cleaning?

TubeLines has announced a cut of one-fifth in the value of its cleaning contract. This can only lead to attacks on cleaners' jobs and already-appalling terms and conditions, and to (even) worse standards of cleaning and therefore of safety.

Here's RMT's press release ...

LONDON UNDERGROUND fat-cat...

Sub-Safety On The Track

LUL and the Infracos have allowed even the most vital, safety-critical services to be contracted out. One result is a crisis of confidence in Protection Masters as the role is given to cowboy companies who do not train their people properly.

Engineering workers have experienced horror stories...

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