Threat of strikes wins improved pay offer on London Overground
RMT members on London Overground (Arriva Rail London) have called off strikes planed for 4-5 March and accepted a revised pay offer from the employer.
RMT members on London Overground (Arriva Rail London) have called off strikes planed for 4-5 March and accepted a revised pay offer from the employer.
We've reported previously on LUL's plans to cut jobs in Fleet, by closing call points, leading to a shortfall in 27 jobs.
But it seems their plans may go further. According to research conducted by RMT reps, it looks like 20% of substantive positions in fleet depots are being held vacant.
Why...
The latest edition of TfL's in-house magazine On The Move focuses on women's equality, profiling women workers in various parts of the network and discussing the steps the company has taken to improve the representation of women.
It’s a fairly mainstream view in Britain that healthcare, as a vital public service we all rely on, should be socially provided, for free, and funded by taxation.
Here at Tubeworker, we've long argued that climate change is a working-class issue, and that we as public transport workers have a particular role to play in fighting for a pro-worker transition to a zero-carbon future.
The latest edition of our bulletin is now online.
Cleaners, catering and security staff, track protection workers, and others are employed by private companies rather than by LUL or TfL directly. Contracting out work to private companies is known as “outsourcing”. Invariably, outsourced workers have worse terms and conditions, and less secure work...
An Evening Standard story covering a TfL report about the parlous state of the Bakerloo fleet was greeted with wry amusement in many mess rooms in Bakerloo depots and stations.
Some of the stats (630,500 lost customer hours in 2022-3) are shocking; it’s only thanks to the hard work of staff on the...
Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall has wheeled out one of her party’s favourite lines, a promise to revoke the nominee passes TfL staff can access for a co-habiting family member or friend.
Hall ridiculously claims that revoking the passes would generate hundreds of millions of additional revenue...
TSSA is balloting its Customer Service Manager members across LU for industrial action against the ongoing restructure of the grade, with the ballot closing on 7 March.
The ballot is in part the result of pressure to do something, anything, about the restructure of the grade in which TSSA's LU...
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