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

