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At the 'Off The Rails' national meeting last year, we discussed how to fight disputes effectively, and put together a list of 'Do's and 'Don't's which included DON'T, unless you have to, strike over two separate issues (after all, what do you do if management cave in on one dependant on you caving...

Unless management reverse their outrageous sacking of Mukesh Mahatma, his workmates on Canary Wharf group will strike on the next two Mondays.

Having delivered a decisive Yes vote in the strike ballot, Canary Wharf group staff obviously understand what is at stake. If LUL gets away with...

Service control staff were barely out of one naff 'restructuring' than we faced another. This time, it is all about 'upgrading' to super new control centres. This may sound like the way forward for the future of service control - the problem is the way that management are treating workers in the...

Management were supposed to produce the Business Needs Schematics for the ex-Silverlink stations months ago. Then weeks ago. Then last week. But still ... Nothing.

The BNS is the chart that shows what duties need to be done on a station during the 24 hours of a day. The rosters are then built...

At Earls Court control centre, management have introduced 'corrective action plans'. A member of staff gets so many 'items' and they are hauled off by a manager to 'agree' and implement a plan.

But there was no consultation with the union, and there is no involvement of reps in the process...

Back in early February, there was a suspected one-under at Kenton, which came to light when a Virgin train stopped short at Harrow & Wealdstone early in the morning.

Just after 8am, line control phoned Harrow & Wealdstone and asked for ONE CSA to go to Kenton to do detrainments. Yes, that's one...

For the seventh time, Bakerloo line detrainment staff are taking a day's strike action today. The action conveniently coincides with the Spurs-Chelsea Carling Cup Final at Wembley, meaning that the managers and RCIs doing the strikers' duties could have a torrid time this afternoon. Our hearts bleed...

On Saturday 5 April, the Tubeworker crew is off to Nottingham, for a dayschool for trade unionists organised by Workers' Liberty. The discussions and training at this event will help us with producing effective leaflets and bulletins like Tubeworker, and help us to get a better understanding of the...

It seems that staff destined for the Heathrow Terminal 5 are to be trained at Queen's Park station in detrainments.

But Heathrow T5 is to be staffed by non-LUL staff, so why are we letting them train on our stations?!

This has no doubt been agreed with LUL management. Pity they didn't agree it...

The Evening Standard phoned me for a comment on Castro’s retirement yesterday. This is what they printed today.

Fidel Castro should be remembered as part of the Stalinist tradition: the antithesis of authentic socialism. Within a year of his coming to power in Cuba, workers had been denied the...