Disputes

The dispute over the use of agency labour on LU Fleet has been resolved, with the company agreeing to take on the agency trainers on standard LU contracts, for periods of at least one year.

This is a significant victory against LU's drive to outsource. The principle of "sack the agencies, not the...

Aslef and RMT's additional industrial action short of strikes, named in response to LU's safety breaches (see here) has clearly got the company panicked.

The unions rightly declared that no member should take a train into service if it hadn't been properly prepped by properly licensed staff. A 24...

A Tubeworker reader took a closer look at the "final" pay offer LU put on the table before our 8-9 July strike (you remember, the one they presented in the afternoon but said they'd withdraw unless the unions accepted it by 18:30). It made even worse reading on closer inspection than it did at first...

The extent of LU's reliance on overtime to keep the Tube running is being revealed, as our overtime ban begins to cause serious problems.

Old Street recently became the latest station to close for part of the day due to staff shortages. Tubeworker hears that several other major stations have only...

As our strike begins and services shut down, we're reminded, along with the rest of London, of the immense power of withdrawing our labour. But the accompanying barrage of vitriolic hostility in the media also reminds us that we're part of a wider fight; this isn't just about us versus our bosses...

1. We can stop the job.
2. No-one can jump ship to another union to avoid striking.
3. Management can't use the fact of some unions not striking to slag off and isolate the one that is.
4. We get a sense of how powerful we are when we unite.
5. Members of different unions get to organise together...

RMT members have voted by over 90% to strike in the dispute over pay and Night Tube. The re-ballot of station staff for further action in the "Every Job Matters" dispute also returned a majority of over 90%, as did the ballots of LU Fleet members (for strikes against the use of agency trainers) and...

LU have published the first official "Night Tube" map, with some proposed timetable details too. It's surely no coincidence that they've done this days before RMT returns its ballot for strikes.

The narrative Boris Johnson, via our bosses, is trying to establish is clear: Look at this wonderful...

A Tubeworker correspondent writes...​​

The feeling of unity amongst train drivers is the highest it has been for a long time. It is the reaction against managements insulting pay offer, and ruthless attempt to permanently increase night working with no compensation or mitigation that has caused to...

98% of ASLEF drivers have voted to strike in the pay/Night Tube dispute, on a turnout of over 80%.

The result smashes the Tories' proposed thresholds for strike ballots, and shows the strength of feeling amongst drivers at the prospect of having agreements torn up so bosses can impose 24-hour...