Disputes

Reports from disputes as they progress, and assessments of them when they are over.

Outsourced workers on the DLR strike again

Outsourced cleaners, security staff, and revenue protection workers employed by ISS on the Docklands Light Railway are striking from 24-25 February, as they continue their fight for decent pay. ISS has offer just 1.8%; given rising inflation and soaring living costs, the workers have understandably...

Aslef renews mandate... will it finally use it?!

Aslef has renewed its industrial action mandate on London Underground... again. It achieved an extremely impressive 99% vote for strikes on a 77% turnout amongst its 1,577 driver members on the Tube.

At this stage, Aslef has had a mandate for industrial action on LU for just shy of three years, and...

Drivers: vote yes for strikes to defend detrainment duties

RMT is balloting driver members on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith and City, and Jubilee lines for strikes to resist the removal of detrainment duties at terminating stations.

We've covered this issue extensively - see some of our previous coverage here and here.

Action is absolutely...

TfL workers: vote yes for action on pay!

RMT members at Transport for London are balloting for industrial action to win a decent settlement on pay and conditions. The ballot opens on 31 January, and runs until 21 February. Tubeworker encourages all readers at TfL to vote yes!

(As there’s sometimes some confusion about this, and especially...

Northern line fleet workers vote for action

Fleet maintenance workers at Golders Green and Morden depots on the Northern line have voted by a 92% majority for strikes, and by a 94% majority for action short of strikes, in their dispute to win a decent pay settlement. 66% of eligible members voted in the RMT ballot.

Unlike most fleet...

Detrainment fight is opportunity to build unity

LUL management want to scrap manual detrainment so that they can cut station staff jobs. It would mean rather than a CSA or train op checking each carriage is empty before going into a siding, the train op makes an announcement, flashes the lights, and hopes for the best.

A recent management...

Aslef calls strikes on Bakerloo line

Aslef has called strikes on the Bakerloo line on 4 and 11 February, after drivers voted 99% in favour of industrial action short of strikes, and 95% in favour of strikes, on an 80% turnout. The dispute is over LUL’s plan to remove detrainment duties from Bakerloo line platform, which involve station...

Mass strike on 1 February: why aren’t we joining it?

1 February 2023 will be the biggest strike since 2011, when two million workers struck against cuts to public sector pensions. Civil servants, teachers, university workers, mainline train drivers, and others will be striking. With both RMT and Aslef on London Underground having recently renewed...

Outsourced workers on the DLR to strike

Outsourced cleaning and security staff employed by ISS on the Docklands Light Railway will strike on 30 and 31 December, demanding improved pay and conditions.

The second day of the strike sees them strike alongside over 1,000 other outsourced cleaning workers on mainline train operating companies...

Return to "Flash and Dash" risks jobs and safety

In the same month the Women’s Night Safety Charter was publicised in TfL's in-house magazine On the Move, London Underground detailed plans to remove manual detrainment, in favour of that old favourite "flash and dash".

"Flash and dash" is the process where the train operator will only have to...

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