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Thales workers: vote yes for strikes!

Thales GTS workers are balloting for strikes, with the vote opening on 27 July and closing on 17 August.

Thales engineers provide technological support to LUL and other transport companies across a wide range of functions, including signaling and communication systems. Like many outsourced...

Unite members on LUL to join July strikes

Unite has announced that its members on London Underground will be joining RMT and Aslef members on strike on 26 and 28 July.

Unite has a small membership on LUL, mainly in engineering depots, partially a legacy of some of the old engineering unions that merged to form Amicus, which then merged...

Union sounds alarm on 4LM

RMT safety reps have raised a number of safety concerns with Thales' "Four Lines Modernisation" (4LM) signaling system, due to convert the Sub-Surface Railway (District, Hammersmith & City, Circle, and Metropolitan lines) to automatic signaling.

The project has been plagued with waste and errors...

Protection workers take fight to City Hall

Dozens of protection workers took their fight for better pay, improved working conditions, and direct employment to City Hall on 8 June.

The lively protest followed several well-attended meetings where a charter of demands was drawn up. LUL needs to bring these workers in house, and the rest of the...

Track protection workers get organised

Track protection workers help keep other workers safe when they're working on the track. It's a vital role, but those who perform it often face low pay and precarious conditions. Many track protection workers are not employed directly by LUL, but outsourced to agencies like Cleshar and Morsons.

RMT...

Cable car workers plan strikes

Maintenance workers on the TfL cable car - known as the "IFS Cloud Cable Car" due to its current sponsor - plan strikes from 7-10 April.

26 out of 27 RMT members working for the companies which provide maintenance voted for strikes to win improved pay and conditions. The threat of action has...

Cleshar: Poke Your Pay Insult

Engineering contractor Cleshar has insulted its workforce with a pay offer of just three percent, hopelessly below the rate of inflation and therefore a pay cut.

The company says that any increase above that must be paid for by 'productivity' - by which they mean fewer staff doing more work in...

Northern line fleet workers vote for action

Fleet maintenance workers at Golders Green and Morden depots on the Northern line have voted by a 92% majority for strikes, and by a 94% majority for action short of strikes, in their dispute to win a decent pay settlement. 66% of eligible members voted in the RMT ballot.

Unlike most fleet...

Job cuts and attacks on terms and conditions will spread unless we stop them

We have known all along that, as part of the cuts TfL/LUL promised the government they'd make in exchange for bailout funding, staffing levels and agreements in every area of the company were under review. This wasn't idle speculation, bosses said so explicitly in talks with our unions.

The 600...

Job cuts coming on fleet?

RMT’s recent strikes have rightly highlighted the 600 stations jobs LU currently has in its sights. But, unless they were stopped, it was always only a matter of time until they moved on to other functions.

It looks like the company is now holding vacancies in some fleet depots, which is very...

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