Casualisation and de-staffing

Agency staff, security guards, ticket office job cuts, external recruitment, ... London Underground's drive to cut staffing levels and casualise the workforce, and the workforce's resistance ...

Why My P45?

Adding insult to injury, without explanation, the Trainpeople agency posted many of the 33 workers their P45 forms. We've been describing them as 'sacked' since LU ended its contract with the agency in January, leaving them without work. Now it seems they've actually been sacked from the agency...

Justice for the 33!

Agency workers who worked for the Trainpeople agency on London Underground were led to believe they would get their chance to show LU why they deserve permanent employment.

RMT had argued LU should take them on when LU terminated the contract with the agency on 16th January.

But rather than simply...

Private security guards on our trains? No way!

Under pressure from united and solid action, and increasingly desperate, Bakerloo line management have come up with a proposal that would be laughable were its implications not so dangerous: private security guards on the trains.

Yes, they want to put hired muscle on the trains to 'protect' drivers...

Ditch The Agency, Not Agency Staff!

As Tubeworker has reported before, London Underground continues to use the Trainpeople agency to provide staff on the North of the Bakerloo Line and the South of the District Line.

LU promised unions it would wind down its contract with the agency back in 2008.

This never happened.

The...

Casualisation for Christmas

Just as Santa has his little helpers, so London Underground has its ICSAs - and they are coming back for Christmas.

Although they are supposed to be on the 'unpaid' side of the barrier only, during the Olympics, we saw ICSAs deployed around the stations in places where they shouldn't be. This led...

Pushed Around

On the stations, we’re feeling like we’re being pushed from pillar to post. First we weren’t allowed to transfer to other stations for over three years, as LU prepared ground for last year's stations jobs cull.

Then suddenly, in the last month, LU wants every CSA to be in a fixed position, so...

Save Our Night Turns!

Most of us hate working nights.

But rumours that Station Control Room Assistants (SCRAs) might have their night turns cut across the combine should not be welcomed.

We might get rid of our hated night turns. But for sure LU will be thinking only of cutting jobs.

With Ticket Selling jobs reduced...

An Obstacle on the Road to Casualisation

We all know LU's plan to use ICSAs as minimum numbers and fully trained station staff is a step on LU's path to casualising our jobs, paying us less, and ultimately shedding a few of us.

With 'action short of strike' on stations over ICSAs throughout the Olympics, we've thrown an obstacle in their...

Whose Tea Bags?

Remember when LU stopped supplying tea bags to station staff (one of LU's first recession cut-backs)?

Suddenly tea bags appeared again for the Olympics.

But we've been told, this was not for the benefit of station staff, but to keep ICSA volunteers sweet.

When you think about it, it's small price...

ICSA Incidents

Incident CSAs, with minimal training, have been sent onto stations over the Olympics, as LU follows the ‘retail model’ and equates station staff to low-paid, untrained, customer service workers.

RMT says ICSAs are not fully licensed. RMT has put on ‘action short of a strike’: they should not...

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