Tubeworker's blog

In an extraordinary move that would be comical if it were not serious, Central Line trains management have given a 23-week attendance warning to a driver due to retire in less than two weeks time!

On Tubelines, workers from pre-PPP days have a free pass and TfL pension, and post-PPP employees do not.

With OSN 101, platforms were recategorised so that drivers no longer need assistance from station staff. RMT is boycotting this unsafe, staff-cutting measure.

According to the Evening Standard, LU train drivers earn £61 thousand a year, which must come as news to most train drivers!

LU station staff have been gobsmacked by LU's pathetic £15 per shift 'Olympics Reward' offer.

How lovely, receiving confirmation that we reached the magic target to get our CSS bonus.

Did you apply for the SS3 posts advertised in the Traffic Circular?

Tubelines Lift and Escalator engineers have been told they can't book annual leave during the Olympics, and yet they are still not clear whether they will get a bonus.

Transport for London have belatedly announced the 5.6% average New Year fares increases.

LU are pushing the idea that, in the event of a station evacuation, it is the customers' responsibility to get themselves out of the station.

Problems persist with the sensitive edge door technology on the Victoria Line.

LU's 'Surplus and Loss' procedure, introduced in October, is kicking in.

Thanks LU for our back-pay. In these tough times, it will surely come in handy for Xmas.

LU have announced plans to roll out 'AFM functionality' to non-SAMF licenced staff.

Drivers in some depots have notice that LU are stepping-up their issuing of attendance warnings. Tubeworker wonders whether there is a link with the Olympics?

During a one-under at Euston on Wednesday evening, someone decided it would be a good idea to store the body in the cleaners' mess room until the coroner arrived to take it away two hours later.

What to expect: a first-hand account.

RMT drivers voted by 80% to boycot LU's new OSN 101, which removes assisted dispatch and allows trains to reverse into platforms and passengers to be carried over shunt signals.

LU Traffic Circular 43 contained the worrying 'change to rule book': 'If a station supervisor has concerns with a contractor or persons signing in...the station supervisor must not deny access'.

'See a cup? Please pick it up'. Has anyone seen this London Underground poster about the place?

Despite repeated problems with the Victoria line train doors, management seem determined to plough ahead with Automatic Door Opening.

Around 3000 people set up the 'Occupy London' camp outside St Pauls Cathedral on Saturday 15th October, part of an international day of action in support of the month-long ‘Occupy Wall Street’ cam

In Olympics negotiations, all companies have been dividing and distracting us.

RMT’s victory earlier this year to restore cleaning vouchers has been overturned by LU. They now say they will distribute the cleaning vouchers they have in stock, but they won't order any more.

LU are imposing a new surplus and loss procedure for ticket office staff. If your account is out by £5 or more, a disciplinary item will be generated.

Having been first aiders on the stations for many years, providing care to thousands of customers, some staff are now being told that there are ‘too many’ first aiders and that when the three year

London Underground's continuing refusal to reinstate James Masango is beneath contempt.

The result of RMT's ballot on OSN101 will be out today, and we can expect a Yes vote, immediately followed by an official boycott of the newly-imposed unsafe procedures for drivers.

Station staff have been alarmed to see people turning up at their station, not even signing in, and wandering around noting down faults to pass on to the FRC.

A manager has sent a message round the job telling other stations not to send visually-impaired passengers to Victoria during the evening peak.