Dress Casual
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The latest plan for ATOR (or whatever it is called now) will be a two-day course, the first in our own clothes where we listen all day long to management propaganda.
Training
Wot No Lift Training?
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LU is making a dog's dinner of its new lift training procedures, and has now been caught out trying to bully staff.
Defend our Licences
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We were informed the other day of the ‘good news’ that our Continuous Development Program (CDP) will be shorter: two days for supervisors and one day for CSAs.
Briefing Stalled
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CSAs have been briefed on a new procedure for when trains are stalled in tunnels.
Wot No Training?
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Recent reports from new CSAs coming out of Ashfield House say that they only get five full days of training now!
Training Other Companies' Staff To Do Our Jobs
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It seems that staff destined for the Heathrow Terminal 5 are to be trained at Queen's Park station in detrainments.
Management Use Disability Rights As Cover For Attack
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Management have circulated a document to the disabled staff network group that should ring alarm bells for everyone - able-bodied and disabled alike. Under the progressive and welcome aim of employing more disabled staff in frontline jobs, they propose to remove some of the licensing requirements for station grades.
Licences Expired (Again)
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It seems that many of the Control Room staff at Neasden have been working despite their safety-critical licensing having expired.
Familiar At Last
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Tubeworker has been saying for a long long time that Station Supervisors ought to be track familiarised. Management's persistent failure to ensure this has led to many incidents of unnecessarily long service disruption and distress to staff.
Wrong Direction? Wrong Rules!
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It seems that we all continue to ignore the new Rule Books, preferring to stick to procedures that we know are safe. For instance, earlier this week, during the signal failure on the District line, a driver needed to do a Wrong Direction Move near Dagenham East - and naturally, needed the station supervisor to give him authorisation to do so. Never mind that under the new 'Rules' the SS no longer has any role in a WDM: we all know it's not safe without that form.