SPADs

As we know, management are constantly figuring out way of reducing SPADs. They have expert analysts on the case, and no stone is left unturned in their efforts to deploy the latest scientific strategies. So a prize for innovation, please, to Bakerloo line management, for coming up with this...

A Northern Line DMT on a driving day had an aggravated SPAD. He got a 12-month suspended sacking - but was returned to work at his own depot!

How can he have any credibility dealing with drivers over SPADs when he has disregarded the rules so flagrantly?

SPADs have shot up over the last year, rising 18% from 775 last year to a whopping 951 this year.

The cause? Well, remember Tubeworker reporting on those impractical new timetables on the Northern, Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines? Could it be that if you cram too many trains in, then drivers come up...

LUL prides itself on its 'Dignity at Work' policy promising you decent toilet facilities - you know, regularly cleaned, enough bog roll, etc.

It's a shame that this policy doesn't seem to extend to the right to relieve yourself free from being nagged about SPADs. Yes, at Morden depot, sit down for...

The RMT won a great victory last month by forcing management to re-instate Raj Nathvani and Les Bruty, Jubilee Line drivers who faced the sack in a ridiculously heavy-handed bid to attack the union in the run-up to London 2012.

Raj was "guilty" of a SPAD - his first in 8 years' service - while Les...

You know how keen management are to reduce SPADs? Very, when it comes to cracking down on drivers. Less so when it comes to taking action themselves.

The Picc Line’s SPAD group addresses issues such as signal sighting. It’s supposed to meet monthly – but has only just had its first meeting since...

Ruislip depot ballot result - Service Control grades committee - SPAD wristbands

• Ruislip depot Balfour Beatty. The result of the ballot for industrial action short of strike was 100%. This will enable the Tube Recon Gangs to refuse to comply with management's new rules for Friday working....

The SPAD (that's Signals Passed At Danger, for you non-Underground workers earwigging the TW blog) Champ has really excelled himself this time, issuing drivers with wristbands stating that 'Professionalism Prevents Piccadilly SPADs' and 'Piccadilly Drivers Don't SPAD'. Tubeworker wonders when we...