In 2022-23, across the entire UK rail network, there were 226 SPADs. The Picc had 187 on its own last year, nearly as many as every other UK railway combined. Over half of these SPADs were from drivers with less than two years of driving experience, who make up a small minority of those on the line...
With no clear timescale for it to be torn down, Bollo House, the Picc train crew depot, is starting to do the work itself. With the rat population exploding back to record levels now Spring has sprung, the latest development in the ongoing saga of disrepair and neglect was a whole window falling...
The train drivers' union Aslef struck on 5, 6, and 8 April, alongside overtime bans over days surrounding the strikes, in continuation of our dispute with Train Operating Companies operating primarily in England over pay since 2022.
The National Education Union (NEU) conference took place in Bournemouth, 3-6 April 2024.
TSSA has announced a strike of its Customer Service Managers on LU, due to take place on 10 April. The strike aims to protest LUL's plans to abolish the CSM grade and deploy CSMs into other roles.
Tubeworker is pro-strike. We support any group of workers taking action, and urge any workers in other...
Aslef called off its planned strikes on the Tube after a letter from the company making various concessions on several of the issues under dispute. An almost-identical letter which issued to the RMT, which had been in parallel, but separate, talks with LUL on the same issues.
A comprehensive...
RMT has begun re-balloting directly-employed LUL members to renew the industrial action mandate in the "Jobs, Pensions, and Agreements" dispute.
Background:
Aslef has called strikes of LUL drivers on 8 April and 4 May. The strikes are in protest at LUL’s refusal to drop plans to radically reform drivers’ terms and...
An RMT activist writes...
I read the latest London Underground Employee Bulletin, about talks aimed at resolving Aslef's dispute and proposed strikes, with interest. It had a slightly different tone to other bulletins on industrial action that I’ve read when it was my own union, RMT, who had named...
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