ISS has today issued instructions to Northern Line station cleaners that are as absurd as they are oppressive. The cowboy contractor has told half the cleaners that they must take two weeks holiday from tomorrow, leaving the other half to clean 3 or 4 stations each.
So one half have holidays that...
New Jubilee Line drivers have fallen victim to a farcical 'pilot' stock training. Three weeks training has been squeezed into about seven days before the written test, followed by two days before the practical. Trainees whizz through the 14 modules contained in the manual in just five days, at such...
Possibly the Prime Minister may live to regret setting up the facility to place e-petitions on the 10 Downing Street website. Or possibly he just intends to ignore them. There are now 6,752.
Here are JBlog’s recommended five to sign before their deadline runs out (soon):
DLR workers have accepted the company's pay offer, but with a significant minority against and a notable lack of enthusiasm.
With 142 in favour and 76 against, more than one-third opposed the deal, despite its recommendation by RMT's National Executive. Plenty of rank-and-file workers could see...
Following a massive Yes vote in their industrial action ballot, RMT has set out plans for industrial action on Metronet. Here's the union's press release ...
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RMT press release: March 28 2007
Strike action will follow if agreement not honoured, says RMT
MORE THAN 2,000 Metronet Tube...
Jubilee Line management pulled a stunt that they thought would be a nice, attention-grabbing bit of propaganda, but has backfired and upset staff.
They send everyone a DVD, in a packet - not marked with the company's logo or a return address - which also contained a piece of signal cable. The...
RMT members are now voting for our Executive representative. The choice is beteen Olly New and Brian Munro.
When the two candidates went round the branches asking for nominations, Brian generally came across better, with more passion, more focus on rank-and-file workers, and more 'fighting talk'...
Andrew Adonis may well become the number one figure of contempt on this blog, nudging ahead of Ruth Kelly and George Galloway.
He has moved into pole position with his latest campaign to reduce car usage for taking kids to school.
He's going to cut the qualifying distance for free travel on...
If you think it's been a bit quiet here on JBlog for the last few days, it's not just because of jetlag following my conference binge of the last few weeks.
It's also because my blogging attentions have been preoccupied elsewhere, namely at the Rail4John blog. Check it out for news, reports...
On the DLR, a certain Service Team Leader is causing grief amongst staff. He has developed a nasty habit of taking people to one side and giving them an ear-bashing about penalty fares. Some people might call his behaviour 'bullying'. Especially if he pressurises staff working alone on trains to...
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