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The new issue of our printed Tubeworker bulletin is out now. Download it here.

Here's RMT's Press Release:

Publication Date: April 18 2008

Company fails to provide uniquivocal written guarantees

RMT's 2,500 members at failed privateer Metronet will strike for 48 hours from 10:30am on Monday April 28 after failing to win unequivocal written guarantees on outsourcing...

Female staff at Euston have been kicked out of their female toilets to make way for the men while the male toilets are refurbished.

The lack of logic here shows the lack of consideration to female staff that has gone into this plan. There is now a sign on the female toilet door, saying ‘Stop! The...

Ken for Mayor or Boris for Mayor? Voters in London’s mayoral elections face a grim choice on May 1st.

Despite the cuddly image he cultivates, the very real prospect of Tory Boris Johnson’s victory is terrifying. This man has no experience of working class London life. Educated at Eton, then Oxford...

LUL Employee communications released the CSS (Customer Satisfaction Survey) results for 2007/8 in an internal bulletin on the 10th April.

We did not achieve the target of 78, finishing with an oh so near, but so far score of 77!

Now, the managing director has been "so impressed and proud of our...

On Greenford group - and maybe elsewhere - management have altered the targets for revenue activity, taking the emphasis off actually selling tickets and shifting it towards encouraging customers not to do so.

Management have brought in a new target, the Ticket Selling Index. The credit you get for...

Metronet and TubeLines workers' strike committee met last night to co-ordinate their action across the entire network. Leading London Underground union activists were also on hand to give solidarity and support for the coming strikes and promised to refuse to work if they were under imminent danger...

RMT members working for Metronet voted 751 to 171 for strike action - that's a whopping 81.5%.

The union's Executive decided to take this mandate to management and demand the guarantees we need on pensions, passes and privatisation (PPP?), but did not go so far as to name strike action or even to...

Remember LUL management saying they would endeavour to fill all posts with internal applicants? Check this out. Yes, it's an external recruitment ad for duty managers.

Tubeworker isn't about to recommend anyone cross over to the dark side and become a manager. But at least our current crop of...

Any Tube workers out there tempted to vote Liberal Democrat in the forthcoming Mayor and GLA election should have a quick gander at LibDem Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick's manifesto on transport. There you will discover that he wants to privatise us!

He doesn't actually use the word...