All Tube workers know at heart that if all our unions took united action over pay and other issues, we could win so much more. All unions have rejected LUL's crap pay offer and should stand together to fight it; so far only RMT is doing anything.
Many ordinary members of every union are baffled...
A shocking incident on the Victoria line on 10 August shows just how reckless management are getting with our and our passengers' safety.
After a report of a loud banging noise between Tottenham Hale and Blackhorse Road northbound, the controller asked the Tottenham Hale Station Supervisor to ride...
ISS on TubeLines are trialling a new scheme to save themselves some money and squeeze more work from their employees.
At stations including Euston, deep cleaning that would formerly have been done during engineering hours will be done during traffic hours; no extra staff will be employed. With two...
It seems that there may have been a breakthrough on the issue of compulsory redundancies and fresh talks at ACAS on pay - read RMT's circular here. However, details are as yet unclear. The shortage of definite information about what is going on with our dispute has been causing frustration among...
London Underground has dealt with Kevin Dobinson's Director's Appeal without any discussion and reaffirmed his sacking by letter!
A Director's appeal involves a meeting between the person's union official and a company Director; the union official outlines grounds why the disciplinary sentence...
Tonight at midnight, ASLEF - along with RMT - starts its second 48-hour strike on National Express East Anglia over pay, jobs, and a generally crap industrial relations situation. Very much like the issues we face, then. So why on earth doesn't ASLEF do the same on the Tube?!
ASLEF should be doing...
At five stations: Euston, Kings Cross, Brixton, Victoria and Paddington, LU have extended the minimum £5 Oyster top up trial, despite the unions's opposition to this entire scheme.
Local staff or reps were not given any prior warning.....perhaps to avert a renewal of the campaign that both unions...
RMT declared a deadline of 29 July for London Underground and TfL to come up with improvements to their appalling stances on jobs, pay and justice. The union said that if there were no progress, further strike dates would be named. Well, that deadline came and went a week ago, so the union should...
LUL are showing their true intentions for the Special Requirements Team, as they have them covering rostered duties at Bond Street while resident staff attend a "briefing". Never mind that the Special Requirements Team is supposed to be for, erm, special requirements; and never mind that the...
Vestas workers on the Isle of Wight, occupying Britain's only wind turbine factory against closure, staved off eviction in the courts on Tuesday. The company responded by sacking the workers it perceives to be central to the occupation. Next Tuesday they will face the courts again in Newport, and...
Management's claims that there will be no compulsory redundancies simply do not match up. They are waving around a list of people in the firing line and a list of vacancies which is bigger. But you can't tell someone in a clerical grade to suddenly apply for a job as a project manager or engineer...
Management's 'Heads Up' document last week repeated the falsehoood that LU's contribution to our pension fund is becoming unsustainable. Gerry Duffy is using alarmist talk hoping that we won't 'rock the boat' any further and carry on with our dispute.
Thankfully, we don't have to rely on Gerry's...
There have been so few promotional opportunities in LU recently that last week’s Station Supervisor campaign was a much-needed ray of hope. This was soon dashed when staff read they could only apply if able to nominate for a ticket office position. By Friday, the Campaign Recruitment Team said...
London Underground are really scraping the barrel now to make cuts. Unclaimed lost property used to be auctioned off once a year to raise money for the widows and orphans fund. Now they have decided they can't afford to do their bit for charity, and will instead sell off the items to fund the...
The British National Party denies being ‘Fascist’ and claims to be a respectable party. In elections and in numbers, it is on the rise. Last week, its two MEPs took their two seats in the European Parliament. But in their politics and their origins, they remain a Fascist party. Here we will answer...
Now all the fat cat bosses
Who think they are so wise
Say we are in a recession
The workers won't arise
These workers tell us what they want
But we know what they need
We won't allow some union
Make us curb our greed
And we'll say what is chickenfeed
And we'll say what's enough
So raise your...
RMT is to ballot drivers on the Bakerloo line for both strikes and action short of strikes to demand the reinstatement of Kevin Dobinson, sacked for an aggravated SPAD.
London Underground is trying to establish a regime where they will routinely sack anyone for even the smallest mistakes. They want...
And on the subject of new train stock, it seems that there are a couple of glitches with the new Victoria line trains - a less-than-perfect PA system, and a problem with the doors whereby the 'sensitive edge' may not stay sensitive forever.
So, which of these two problems do you think management...
It seems that the new S stock trains for the Metropolitan line may not be up to scratch.
When tested on Bombardier's test track at Old Dalby in Derby, they managed to rip up the rails! Apparently, this could be something to do with the brakes, or it may be that the train is designed on the...
Ticket Office staff at Goodge St Station came into work one morning last week to find that their 'Tickets and Assistance' window had been turned into an 'Information' booth. Not because the ticket sellers have suddenly stopped selling tickets......but because management, continuously striving to...
So Boris Johnson thinks that a quarter-of-a-million income is 'chicken feed' - so long as it is his second income not our pay claim!
It takes a particular type of arrogant, self-opinionated egomaniac to believe that his writing hobby is worth more than ten times the daily slog of a CSA.
With this...
Swine flu has hit London Underground staff, but there is still no clear statement from management that absences will not count as an item under the Attendance policy.
The potential consequences of this are frightening. Under the regime of fear created by the Attendance policy, staff could be so...
Managers at Woodford have got it into their heads that station staff should detrain the reversers in sixty seconds! Maybe they are limbering us up for the Olympics. Or they are taking the employers' raison d'etre of making us work ever harder and faster to the extreme.
Our fearless managers were...
Management's latest 'Heads Up' bulletin introduces the possibility that by asking for too much pay, the unions could be putting the pension fund at risk. Each pay increase, it argues, increases the pressure on our pension fund, which is already struggling in this economic climate. This completely...
We are in the thick of a dispute which is partly about defending agreements. Many ordinary workers do not understand why union officials keep going on about the importance of agreements; it can even come across as though it is just a union officials vs management squabble of little relevance in the...
It was clear from today's RMT meetings that the majority of reps recognise the need for more strike action, and believe that rank-and-file members are up for it so long as they are kept informed about the issues.
There are undoubtedly areas where support for action is not 100%, but dropping the...
Of late, a few sweltering days have made the wearing of ties very uncomfortable for station staff amongst others. Tubeworker reckons that if it you can't wear it comfortably, then take it off.
So how does London Underground deal with this? Generally, NOC issues a Hot Weather declaration, announcing...
After hours of talks and of course our two days of strike action, management have improved their pay offer. We are now looking at a two year deal: 1.5% this year and RPI plus 0.5% for year two. Good to see that our action has produced some results: scuppering the 5 year nightmare and getting us an...
Funnily enough, talks seem to slow down to a snail's pace when industrial action is finished and no further action is yet called. In the couple of days running up to our excellent two-day strike, management were prepared to sit down with union negotiators for so many hours each day it would break...
London Underground is to slash its spending on maintaining the ex-Metronet lines.
LUL has claimed that it can achieve these cuts without compromising safety. Excuse us while we roll round the floor laughing.
With the...
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