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Remember dynamic risk assessments? That's where management - in the person of a Rostered Duty Officer - can make an on-the-spot decision to assess that a particular procedure is 'safe' even if it's against the rules.

You think that's bad enough? Well, management have now adopted the notion of...

Management's latest wheeze for bullying the sick is the 'rainbow chart'. This device enables them to identify a 'pattern' of sickness even amongst those staff whose attendance is so good that they have not actually triggered the attendance policy.

For instance ... Perhaps you had two days off in...

LUL's plan to move detrainments from Willesden Junction to Stonebridge Park will whip staff out of the frying pan and toss them into the fire.

Stonebridge lacks the most basic facilities that station staff need to get through a shift in minimum comfort. The best 'solution' management seem able to...

Management reckon the Ticket Office Procedures Handbook is a wee bit bulky; a tad old-fashioned; and perhaps as not as user-friendly as it could be. You'll get no argument from Tubeworker there.

So they plan to slim it down, chop it up into bite-size chunks and give it a make-over. Worry not, there...

Thought Metronet workers had won a deal with the superbly-effective strike action last Autumn? Well yes, they did, but now the union is having to defend it against a management apparently determined to squirm out of it.

TfL has refused to meet with Metronet union reps, even though they are supposed...

A large teachers' strike has been called for Tuesday 18th March in France, with teachers in many schools voting to strike indefinitely. As the preparations for this are underway, the JCR (the LCR's youth wing) has been mobilising to get word out to lycée (roughly equivalent to post-16/FE college)...

LUL has upheld the outrageous sacking of Eva Bayford on appeal. Eva's workmates are now gearing up for indutrial action to demand her reinstatement - and the rest of us should do all we can to help.

There's a long-standing labour movement maxim that 'an injury to one is an injury to all'...

Tory Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson has unveiled his transport policy, promising a no-strike deal on the Tube. It’s more proof of the reactionary agenda of the ex-public schoolboy Henley MP, who may have a serious chance of winning the election.

Johnson, already infamous for once calling black...

The opinions of William Morris on what we now call ecology are important in any assessment of him as a political thinker in his own time. His views indicate a degree of originality and creativity that mark him out even among the best of his Marxist contemporaries, such as Paul Lafargue, Eleanor Marx...

Morris was a political activist, and although his personal life was informed by his socialist politics, he did not see lifestyle or consumer behaviour as a substitute for political action. And he was no “back to the land simple-lifer”, despite moving in circles where alternative living was practiced...