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Metronet has backed down in its victimisation of Andy Littlechild and the dispute is now settled. Andy has kept his job and his grade.

This is doubtless due to the strong response from his workmates, who immediately balloted for strike action and made their support for Andy clear. Metronet knew...

Don't forget tonight's RMT members' meeting, 6.30pm, Friends House. Discuss the pay claim and plan our defence of victimised activists and members.

Tubeworker has long argued that rnak-and-file union members should discuss and decide on what we want in the pay claim rather than just wait for head...

Word reaches Tubeworker that the King's Cross staff who walked out to prevent abuse of the SRT are to face disciplinary action. So it's not a disciplinary offence for management to break the agreements that they themselves signed, but it is a crime to defend those agreements?!

You get the...

Cleaners employed by ICS and Initial are not receiving the London Living Wage, even though they are contrated by Metronet, who have promised it.

In negotiations, the full London Living Wage to be paid on TubeLines does not look secure. It looks like that the money is not forthcoming, so RMT will...

America will vote in the 'world's most powerful person' in November. George Bush has become a hate figure for the big money and world-conquering ambitions of the US. But will the world be a better place when he's gone?

The Republican candidate, John McCain, promises more of the same, but with an...

Look at the attacks that management on LU are throwing at us ...

The Special Requirements Team are being used to cover duties, when they should only be used for special events. New CSAs are being put into the SRT without any choice.

Staff are being threatened with forcible displacement on Edgware...

Metronet not only continues to victimise RMT rep Andy Littlechild, it has also turned its sights on several other reps too. The company's intention could not be more obvious: to clear the decks of assertive, effetive union reps so as to attack working conditions unchallenged. That's why must all...

Tip to Central Line trains management. When you install new seats in the cabs, make sure that they are securely fixed. And when a union health & safety rep repeatedly points out to you that they are not, take some notice.

Otherwise, what inevitably happens is what happened last week. The seat...

Karl Niles has worked for the Underground for 19 years. He has asthma. He works as a CSA in a Section 12 station (Pimlico) on the dustiest line on the combine (the Vic line).

Or he did work there. He doesn't work anywhere now, because London Underground has sacked him - and has upheld the sacking...

Tube cleaners have won the ‘London living wage’. The intense months of building a 99% yes vote, the first strike days in June/July, picketing, protesting, and planning more strikes in late August have paid off. The dispute has died down to talks over details, but is not over.

It was a historic...