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Tubeworker topics

Topics covered on Tubeworker's blog


Attendance and Discipline

Tube employers' policies on sickness, absence and discipline - and our efforts to fight for justice


Casualisation and de-staffing

Agency staff, security guards, ticket office job cuts, external recruitment, ... London Underground's drive to cut staffing levels and casualise the workforce, and the workforce's resistance ...


Cleaners

Issues for Tube cleaners, and unionisation efforts


Competence management

How management 'assess' us, get our workmates to spy on us, weed out the faces that don't fit, etc ...


Connect

The Tube's 'state-of-the-art' new radio system whose implementation is causing chaos


Disputes

Reports from disputes as they progress, and assessments of them when they are over.


Docklands Light Railway

Reports of issues and struggles form the DLR


Fares and Ticketing

Oyster, ESAF, fares and other ticketing issues


LT Equalities

Equality on the London's Transport?


LT Health & safety

Health & safety issues on London's Transport


LT Pensions

Pensions for Tube and Transport for London workers of all grades and companies


Metronet

Mess-ups by Metronet, and workers' demands for better conditions


Pay

Pay awards and disputes


Probation

Workers in their first six months of employment. How management treat them, and why they should have more rights.


Projects and refurbs

London Underground improvement projects and station refurbishments - and the problems and issues that come with them


Promotion

Battling your way through the Tube's chaotic promotion system


Rights for Reserves

Campaigning for a better deal for reserve and pool staff


Section 12

Defending the legal standards for fire precautions in sub-surface stations


Security

Security in our workplaces


Service control

Issues and struggles for London Underground Service Control


Shorter working weeks

Union campaigns for reduced working hours - and employers' attempts to make workers pay


SPADs

Signals Passed At Danger - and LUL management's hamfisted, ineffective and disciplinarian ways of tackling them


Staffing Levels

Resisting management's attempts to cut staffing levels


Ticket Office cuts and closures

London Underground's plan to close 40 ticket offices and partially close more, announced in April 2007


Training

Training and (re-)licensing


Tube unions & politics

Tube trade unions and political representation


TubeLines

TubeLines' 'performance' and workers' demands for better conditions