Victoria line

LU pushes on with stations job cuts plans: RMT must name more strikes!

Despite objections from union reps, LU has announced that it will begin "local consultation" on job cuts plans on four areas - Victoria Centre, Jubilee South, King's Cross, and Heathrow.

This means bosses will be identifying positions to cut, and drawing up new rosters and schematics based on...

Victorian Values

'Special service' has become pretty much the normal service on the Victoria line of late. On some days, it has been as low as 14 trains.

Management usually blame it on 'operator unavailability' or 'train cancellations', which translates to 'we don't want to admit it, but we don't employ enough...

Step Up Night Tube Strikes

RMT drivers on the Central and Victoria lines are continuing Night Tube strikes every Friday and Saturday.

Strikers are braving cold weather to maintain picket lines at train depots, and big gaps in the service, especially on the Central line, show the strikes are having an impact.

Action is...

Green Park/Euston: Enough is Enough!

RMT will soon be balloting station staff across Green Park and Euston, as members say "enough is enough!" to the overzealous and heavy-handed management culture across the area.

Issues include probationers being sacked on spurious grounds, with one being told they were too proactive, and...

Further Night Tube strikes called: now let's escalate!

RMT has named strikes on the Central and Victoria lines over Night Tube hours for the next six months, the life of the ballot mandate, after its re-ballot of its driver members on five lines over Night Tube grade consolidation returned a 92% majority for further strikes.

Continuing to strike over...

Solid action takes grade consolidation fight forward

The strike action on 26 and 27 November caused widespread disruption across the network. Solid pickets across the affected lines meant bosses were often unable to run even token services. Attempts to run a shuttle service between Cockfosters and Arnos Grove on the Picc soon came to nothing....

RMT calls strikes of drivers on Night Tube lines

RMT has called strikes in its dispute to stop the consolidation of train operator grades. LU wants to merge the Night Tube duties, currently worked by a dedicated grade of driver, into the full-time rosters, offering full-time drivers a shift supplement to work them.

Although part-time drivers...

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