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ISS cleaners on the Northern line have been messed around for months.

Many have no fixed station, don't know where they'll be working from one day to the next. They are forced to work on stations where they haven't been familiarised. They are losing out on the stability (as well as opportunity to...

Lots of station staff applied for the RCI jobs that were advertised a couple of months ago. And lots passed the application.

Then, nothing. No word of a training date, and rumours flying round that it might be six months or more before they get one.

Meanwhile, bang goes your ability to plan your...

RMT will be protesting against East London line privatisation, just as the line closes for the extension to be built. Get yerselves along there.

Thursday 13th December, 11am
outside City Hall

Of course, it is much better to stop the privatisation than to mourn it. It is a serious setback that...

TubeLines is threatening to close the ERU's Tottenham depot, with staff displaced elsewhere. Not good if you live locally and want to carry on working there!

RMT has declared its intention to oppose this, so let's hope it does - with action if words don't work. After all, this is a small...

Chaos on the Picc yesterday, when a couple of hours' suspension in the early afternoon led to delays well late into the evening, no thanks to management's refusal to implement an emergency timetable.

Spare a thought for the beleagured station staff at Acton Town and Northfields. With half-hour...

Management have a new campaign as part of their relentless drive to persecute the sick. They are targeting the '10% worst attenders'. The unlucky tenth could well find their names emblazoned across office walls, together with little icons plotting how they will be poked and prodded back to work or...

LUL's new catchphrase is that its core value is time.

As we know already, time is money.

Go figure ...

Back in 2004, Workers' Liberty (the group which publishes Tubeworker) produced a pamphlet, Tunnel Vision, which reviewed the fight against the Public-Private Partnership. In it, we included an article called Where next?.

Re-reading it now, it is spookily - and sadly - accurate about London...

Bakerloo line station staff had a treat on Monday - a trip to Wembley Stadium's sumptuous hospitality facilities. Why this luxury day out? So that management could schmooze them about their plans for the transferring Silverlink stations.

Fortunately, staff are perhaps not as naive and...

Tubeworker readers will know that LUL has agreed to delay the implementation of the ticket office cuts and closures until autumn 2008.

But while management may have agreed a delay, they are clearly determined to press ahead with the cuts. It seems that infraco surveyors continue to visit stations...