Tube fat cats

Nice work if you can get it?!

A little bit of LinkedIn digging has discovered that our TfL Commissioner Andy Lord (or "Lord Andy", to give him his correct and full title) has two jobs.

Cut top bosses' pay!

The Standard reports that the number of TfL and Crossrail employees earning over £100,000 has increased to 766, up from 597 in 2021/22.

As usual, the Standard uses this story to amplify Tory attacks on Sadiq Khan. The Tories probably think all 766 of the high earners are train drivers...

The...

Meet the new boss... same as the old boss?

(Editor's Note: Yes, we know we've used that title before, but it is pretty much the perfect fit for response to LUL's continual shuffling of the managerial deckchairs...)

New "Stations Operations Managers", who've been "appointed on a secondment basis" to "support their respective Senior Stations...

There is an alternative to grade consolidation: our response to Nick Dent

Another day, another direct communication to LU workers from a senior manager pleading with us not to strike. This time it's from LU director Nick Dent, who has posted on Yammer attacking RMT's strikes against Night Tube grade consolidation. He says strikes are holding London "to ransom", and...

A Christmas letter from the boss...

London Underground Managing Director Andy Lord has written to every member of LU staff to urge us not to participate in RMT's industrial action ballot, which began yesterday (13 December). As news of this unprecedented communication spread amongst colleagues and through staff WhatsApp groups, those...

New brass

LU will have a new Managing Director from November 2019, as Andy Lord joins the company.

His previous role was as Executive Vice President of Menzies Aviation, a logistics firm serving the aviation sector. Prior to that, he worked at British Airways for 25, and he’s also a Non-Executive Director...

Labour rank-and-file challenge Tory cuts and Sadiq Khan's failures

London Labour Party members are set to debate a resolution condemning both the Tory government's cut to TfL funding and Sadiq Khan's decision to implement rather than fight the cuts. The resolution, which has already been passed by one branch, is copied here.

TRANSPORT FOR LONDON

This conference...

74% all round?

It’s been revealed that senior stations boss Brian Woodhead received a 74% salary bump this year, taking his pay to nearly £300k.

While we don’t doubt for a second that Brian is worth every penny of that (after all... if he didn’t come to work, stations wouldn’t open and trains wouldn’t run...

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