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Farewell Howard Collins

As he leaves for a £335 k job to run Sydney Trains, glowing tributes to Howard Collins have poured onto the LU intranet. It’s astounding how little management have to do to earn praise. Staff have written in to say he was remarkable for being friendly to staff. So all you have to do is possess...

Sponsored Stations?

Another jolly good wheeze from those excitable Hooray Henries in the GLA Tory group. They want London Underground to sell its station names to corporate sponsorship.

Yes, if they get their way, you could soon be working at Barclays Baker Street, McDonald's Marble Arch or Golders Phillip Green...

Sodexo Still Anti-Union

Sodexo has refused to renew the contract of a worker who happens to be an RMT rep. Another rep remains stood down on trumped up charges. This is victimisation! Sodexo has agreed to recognise RMT but delayed signing the deal. RMT needs to get those signatures in case membership drops below 50%.

Sodexo Robs the Rep

Canteen Company Sodexo tried awarding pay rises to their favourite LU canteen workers only. But the RMT canteen worker' rep organised the others to submit grievances for their pay too. Sodexo had to cough up.

But the anti-union firm took revenge by withholding the rep's £500 back-pay.

So RMT is...

Spendy Hendy

Peter Hendy, the commissioner of London Transport, has claimed £16,125 in expenses in the last three years. This includes 398 taxi trips or about one every three days. Hendy earned £331,175 last year - twice that of London Mayor Boris Johnson, 12.5 times the average wage, and nearly 315 times that...

Sodexo Success

Tubeworker congratulates the tireless work of Sodexo reps and RMT activists from other grades who successfully recruited over 50% of Sodexo canteen workers into RMT. This has forced the anti-union company to recognise and talk to RMT. This is an example of all grades organising together which...

On Yer Bike, Fat Cats

BoJo and his cronies have obviously forgotten that we are all supposed to be tightening our belts, what with the economic crisis 'n' all.

Our Mayor threw a farewell party for David Brown, the bloke who brought in the bike-hire scheme, at a cost of £6,000 of public funds. Obviously Brown, having...

Nice Work if You Can Get It

London Underground has awarded a £110m track renewals contract to ... Balfour Beatty!

Unless there is another Balfour Beatty we don't know about, this is the same one which was a major part of the Metronet consortium, which spent the disastrous PPP years turning in a crap performance while fleecing...

Nice Work If You Can Get It

As LU top brass work out how best to sack our workmates, they are also busy giving new jobs to one another. Within days of Mike Brown becoming head of LU, having returned from strike busters British Airways, he is creating a new role for the previous acting MD. Richard Parry will take on a new role...

Those Bonkers Bankers Are W*nk*rs

There is news in the dog house that the Lloyds bankers are going to share £2 million for Christmas parties. I suppose that means most of the money going to top dogs and very little to us mutts.

At a time when the posties are fighting for a 35 hour week and better conditions. When there are cuts in...

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