Disputes

London Underground (LU) has now given some more detail on which stations it plans to target to cut jobs. Bosses plan to reduce the "welcome function" (i.e. reducing the number of Customer Service Assistants [CSAs] in ticket halls) at the following locations:

• Euston
• Green Park
• King's Cross
•...

RMT will soon be balloting station staff across Green Park and Euston, as members say "enough is enough!" to the overzealous and heavy-handed management culture across the area.

Issues include probationers being sacked on spurious grounds, with one being told they were too proactive, and...

Since RMT's industrial action ballot returned a 95% majority in favour of taking action, discussion has been ongoing amongst workers about the next steps. This has taken place formally, in union branch meetings and region-wide reps' meeting, but also informally, in workplaces across London...

RMT members on London Underground have voted to take industrial action to defend staffing levels and terms and conditions, including pension arrangements.

The ballot returned a 94% majority for strikes, and 95% majority for action-short-of-strikes, on a 52% turnout. Clearing the arbitrary...

Tubeworker HQ was alerted to this excellent post on Yammer, which we're reposting...

To me, the most notable thing about [Andy Lord's letter to staff] and the new flyer is that management urge RMT members not to take part in the ballot, i.e., not to use your democratic right to vote.

Unions are...

Another day, another direct communication to LU workers from a senior manager pleading with us not to strike. This time it's from LU director Nick Dent, who has posted on Yammer attacking RMT's strikes against Night Tube grade consolidation. He says strikes are holding London "to ransom", and...

RMT has named strikes on the Central and Victoria lines over Night Tube hours for the next six months, the life of the ballot mandate, after its re-ballot of its driver members on five lines over Night Tube grade consolidation returned a 92% majority for further strikes.

Continuing to strike over...

Field Service Engineers at Wood Lane Signals Depot have voted 100% for industrial action short of strikes.

Although there are only seven of them, solid action will force the company to address the reasons that they are justifiably angry - in the first place, by telling their management to pull...

London Underground Managing Director Andy Lord has written to every member of LU staff to urge us not to participate in RMT's industrial action ballot, which began yesterday (13 December). As news of this unprecedented communication spread amongst colleagues and through staff WhatsApp groups, those...

So, management have finally shown their hand – or, more accurately, the first of many hands they intend to deal at us. Don't think that the other grades have escaped a bullet - they are most definitely next in line if we don't all unite to defeat this.

In a weak concoction of disingenuous points...