One consequence of sharing some stations with other train operating companies is that we get the fallout when their standards slip even lower than ours.
So spare a thought for station staff at Moorgate, Old Street and Highbury & Islington. Great Northern have omitted to clean their tunnels...
Tubeworker HQ has received reports that construction contractors working at TCR have been getting involved in congestion control and redirecting passengers.
Isn't this another illustration of the staffing crisis on stations? Presumably the contractors are doing this because there aren't enough CSAs...
The full reintegration of former "TubeLines" engineering maintenance work on the Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly Lines into LUL represents the culmination of a years-long union campaign to bring outsourced work back in house. Their continued outsourcing was a legacy of the disastrous "Public...
Recent heavy rainfall led to serious flooding at many stations, including Balham. Maintenance workers put bright green dye in the water supply to identify exactly where the flooding was originating, making the station look like it had been attacked by Slimer from Ghostbusters.
Incidents like this...
Remember that promise that there would be no detriment arising from the implementation of Night Tube? Remember that promise in the Pay and Night tube dispute settlement that work-life balance would not get worse and would get better where possible?
Well, those promises look like a sick joke to the...
The Northern line's Mill Hill East branch was suspended this morning - with no station staff, it was not fit for the present, let alone the future.
The company's service update blamed "absence of station staff". Note the choice of words: "absence" implies that it's our fault for not turning up...
Union reps have been pushing for the cleaners' storeroom at Hendon Central to be moved from its current location, which beyond the safety barrier. Cleaners don't quite have to walk onto the track to access it, but it's not far off.
ISS and LU say that, because cleaners' "Sentinel Cards" require...
Drivers in the RMT have voted, by 299 to 221 on a 42% turnout, to strike in protest at the unfair sacking of Northern Line driver Alex McGuigan.
Drivers in Alex's depot, Morden, already held a solid strike in December, after which RMT decided to ballot all driver members.
The issue at the heart of...
RMT has begun balloting is driver members across the combine for strikes to protest at the unfair sacking of Northern Line driver Alex McGuigan. Tubeworker urges all our RMT-member T/Op readers to vote yes.
The issue at the heart of the dispute is a simple one. The procedure used to sack Alex was...
RMT reps and activists were feeling rightly chuffed with themselves on the picket line at Morden train crew depot this morning (1 December).
A majority of members of both RMT and ASLEF showed support for the strike for the reinstatement of sacked train driver Alex McGuigan. LU had to run a special...
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