RMT is re-balloting driver members on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, and Victoria lines to renew an industrial action mandate in the dispute over the imposition of "flash-and-dash", the unsafe detrainment method whereby drivers are expected to simply flash in-car...
Tubeworker is a pro-union publication, but we are not affiliated with any particular union on London Underground/TfL. However, we do support industrial unionism - the idea that workers in a particular industry/workplace should be in the same union, rather than organising in separate unions on the...
All four LUL unions have now re-entered pay talks with the company, with Mayor Khan's promise of £30m extra funding now on the table. To ensure we get the best outcome possible, we need the maximum possible transparency in those talks.
RMT has suspended the strikes planned for the rest of this week, after an intervention from City Hall which commits £30 million of new money to re-opened pay negotiations. In the coming days, Tubeworker will host contributions from LU workers giving different views and responses to the suspension...
Our week of action is now underway, after an RMT reps' meeting rightly decided that some crumbs from the bosses' table weren't enough to cancel our strikes.
With no movement on the basic pay element of management's offer, which remains at 5%, and no flat-rate minimum for the lowest-paid, it's...
The final edition of Tubeworker bulletin of 2023 is now online.
Click here to read the bulletin.
This edition looks forwards to strike over LUL pay in January, and encourages all readers to support ABM cleaners' industrial action ballot.
Everyone on LU, directly-employed or outsourced, is part of a collective. We all contribute our labour to ensure the system can run. If any group of workers face unsafe or exploitative conditions, that’s a problem for all of us.
Station staff, drivers, train maintainers, engineers and office...
I'm an Aslef driver for a mainline Train Operating Company. I have been on strike multiple times, most recently in early December, to win a better pay deal.
Being a cleaner is one of the most difficult and frequently unpleasant jobs on the Tube, as well as one of the lowest paid.
So it’s always nice to get some reward and recognition, especially at this time of year. So you can imagine the joy felt by ABM staff across the combine upon discovering the delivery of small cellophane bags containing seven — yes, seven — Quality Street chocolates in various mess rooms.
RMT has called a week of strikes from 5 January, after directly-employed London Underground members voting overwhelmingly for strikes over pay.
From 19 December, RMT will ballot ABM cleaners on the LUL contract for industrial action.
Senior LUL manager Nick Dent has written to Aslef thanking them for accepting the company's 5% pay offer (i.e., a pay cut). Scandalously, the letter also says that, unless the three other unions have accepted the cut by 31 December, LUL will being the process of imposing it.
As voting papers land on doormats in RMT's ballot for industrial action over LUL pay, there's plenty of discussion in mess rooms across the job about the issue.
Aslef is recommending acceptance, but even the most union-loyal Aslef drivers typically concede that, given inflation in April 2023 was 11...
The new edition of our bulletin is now online.
We discuss the Tories' "Minimum Service Levels" anti-strike law, and encourage readers in RMT to vote yes in the ballot for industrial action over LUL pay.
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A little bit of LinkedIn digging has discovered that our TfL Commissioner Andy Lord (or "Lord Andy", to give him his correct and full title) has two jobs.
RMT cleaner reps are working hard to prepare for an upcoming industrial action ballot.
Cleaning contractor ABM has displaced dozens of cleaners via its "Project Lean" restructure, and is yet to respond to an RMT pay claim demanding a pay rise and company sick pay. Meanwhile, the value of cleaners'...
The government has set the minimum service level, which must be provided during strikes under the terms of a new law, for the railway.
It's been set at 40% of timetabled services for passenger rail (mainline service) and light rail, which would include LU and the DLR. Anyone who knows the first...
Following a reps' assembly on 3 November, RMT has announced it is rejected LUL's latest pay offer of 5% for 2023-4, and will prepare for an industrial action ballot to win a better offer.
That ballot needs to be organised with urgency, and accompanied by a vibrant, energetic campaign that harnesses...
We've renewed our industrial action mandate in the jobs, pensions, and agreements dispute with LUL for the fifth time. Members voted by a 95.92% majority for continued action, on a 54.74% turnout.
This shows a clear will to continue fighting over these issues, and is a testament to the hard work of...
DLR workers will strike on 7 and 8 November as they attempt to win a decent settlement on pay and conditions.
They’re employed by Keolis Amey Docklands, the private consortium that runs the DLR on a contract from TfL.
The company’s latest pay offer, for a 5% increase with a one-off £1,000 bonus...
The latest edition of our bulletin is now online.
This edition encourages readers to vote yes in the RMT's re-ballot for action over jobs, pensions, and agreements, and argues for a dispute/ballot on LUL pay. Plus an article on the war in Israel/Palestine, and news on local and workplaces disputes...
Outsourced track protection workers, many working as self-employed contractors for companies like Cleshar and Morsons, face unemployment and poverty due to LUL's failure to procure proper equipment.
LUL failed to provide adequate supplies of new Current Rail Indicator Devices (CRIDs), devices for...
RMT reps are in pay negotiations with Thales, a signalling and communications system contractor with numerous contracts on TfL/LUL. The company's pay offer is 7% for 2023, or 8% for those earning £30k, and 5.5% for 2024.
The union has rightly told Thales the offer is not good enough, and strikes...
RMT has declared a dispute with cleaning contractor ABM over its failure to follow the collective bargaining machinery agreed with the union. Part of this relates to ABM's imposition of "Project Lean", a restructure that has seen dozens of cleaners displaced from their work locations.
Although...
Engineering workers employed by the contractor Cleshar on the East London Line, part of London Overground, suspended a strike planned for 12 October, after Cleshar upped its pay offer and made proposals for reducing working hours.
The revised offer doesn't fully meet union demands, though, so the...
There seems to be a bit of an epidemic across stations recently of managers refusing to cover all duties, with some going as far as to designate certain duties "non-critical" and therefore not requiring coverage at all!
With the cuts made since the start of the year, many stations are already...
LUL has now made its "full and final offer" for 2023-4 pay to the unions. It's a 5% increase, backdated to April 2023. The offer contains no concessions on any of the unions' wider claims around terms and conditions, most of which LUL has dismissed as "unaffordable".
The company also proposes to...
It's that time again, when we're required by anti-strike legislation to re-ballot, by post, to renew our mandate for industrial action. RMT is re-balloting LUL members in the "jobs, pensions, and agreements" dispute.
Tubeworker encourages all readers who are RMT members to vote yes/yes to strikes...
📢 The strike wave in the USA
Tubeworker and Off the Rails public (Zoom) meeting
🗓 Thursday 19 October
🕰️ 15:00-17:00
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Recent weeks and months have seen widespread strikes in the USA, perhaps most...
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