Piccadilly line

The economic crisis is biting hard on London Underground, with all sorts of 'savings' being made. But rather than look in the more obvious places (eg. fat-cat salaries), managers seem to focus their 'savings' on marginal benefits to us.

So when the air conditioning failed in the Upton Park...

Top marks from Tubeworker to Arnos Grove drivers, who refused to work on safety grounds during the Tube Lines strike in even greater numbers than at other depots.

Management were well and truly rattled, and tossed the rules out of the window in an unsuccessful attempt to bully drivers into taking...

Management tried to impose without consultation a new Congestion Conrol Evaucation Plan at Finsbury Park station, which would have reduced staff numbers from 20 to around 12. No way near enough staff to deal with incidents when Arsenal is playing!

The good news is that, following pressure...

LU management are leaving shedloads of duties uncovered because they reckon they are 'not essential'. Not essential to their money-saving or job-cutting plans, maybe, but Tubeworker reckons that they are very much essential to customer service and staff safety.

And here's a case in point. When a...

Wednesday saw little sign of any Picc line trains in central London, with an early-doors derailment that sent the job well and truly up the wall.

It seems that in its dying days, Tube Lines has really excelled itself, as it managed to derail an engineering train in an area (Earls Court) without any...

Three staff from the Special Requirements Team smelt a rat when they were rushed at short notice to Green Park Station and arrived to find hardly any rostered staff present.

The Supervisors were unhappy that SRT had been sent blatantly to cover duties. The SRT rang their manager who gave them the...

'The Sun' took an interest in tube stations shutting last week, as a short closure of Arsenal station gave it an excuse to trot out the old anti-union cliches about railworkers mucking up the service by demanding too many tea breaks.

The truth of the matter is that a member of station staff at...

It seems that a big cheese manager, keen to bolster staff morale, was careless enough to describe the Piccadilly line as the "workhouse" of the Underground when he surely meant the "workhorse".

The workhouse, might we remind him, was a hated feature of the 19th and early 20th century Poor Laws...

Acton Town staff have been alarmed to discover that management expect CSAs to work at stations on their own. Alperton, Park Royal and Sudbury Town all have duty sheets showing CSAs "babysitting" stations this coming week.

We should not tolerate this practice. CSAs are entitled to work with the...

London Underground has sacked Mercy Odisi, Green Park SAMF and RMT rep, over ticket office irregularities.

But the real "irregularity" in the ticket office is LUL's ridiculous accountancy system. Under this silly procedure, introduced a couple of years ago, ticket sellers don't even count their...