Fleet maintenance

Safety checks and repairs of trains - one of management's targets for cuts

Flattened Out

It was another autumn/winter of flats on the Piccadilly line, with some days seeing multiple trains being pulled out of service due to the noise.

Management still seem in denial about the scale of any problem. The controllers never suffer from the noise so they won't ever tell us to take a train...

Resist Fleet job cuts!

LUL has informed reps in Fleet of plans for major job cuts. The company wants to close all call-points, affecting 67 call-point/SST roles. They plan some redeployments, but with a shortfall of 27 jobs.

They also want to “consult” on changes to minimum staffing levels and rostering, almost certainly...

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...

Job cuts and attacks on terms and conditions will spread unless we stop them

We have known all along that, as part of the cuts TfL/LUL promised the government they'd make in exchange for bailout funding, staffing levels and agreements in every area of the company were under review. This wasn't idle speculation, bosses said so explicitly in talks with our unions.

The 600...

Job cuts coming on fleet?

RMT’s recent strikes have rightly highlighted the 600 stations jobs LU currently has in its sights. But, unless they were stopped, it was always only a matter of time until they moved on to other functions.

It looks like the company is now holding vacancies in some fleet depots, which is very...

Anti-union laws hit another ballot

RMT's ballot of fleet workers in depots where LU proposes to impose Automatic Train Control (ATC) for trains going into siding returned a 79% majority for strikes, and an 82% majority for action short of strikes. But as the turnout was just 42%, official (i.e., legal) industrial action can't be...

Say No to ATO! Vote Yes for Action!

RMT is balloting fleet workers at Ealing Common, Neasden, Hearne House, Hammersmith, and Upminster depots for industrial action to resist LU's plan to have trains run in automatic mode ("Automatic Train Operation", ATO; also known as "Automatic Train Control", ATC) in depot sidings.

This is a...

No to Fleet Casualisation

Management are showing how they intend to achieve the 'savings' and 'efficiencies' they are desperate to find - by attacking our job security. London Underground Ltd has revealed its plan to extend the use of fixed-term contracts and non-permanent labour (commonly known as temporary workers). LUL...

Dispute over TubeLines machinery

RMT has declared as dispute with LU over its plan to unilaterally move some workers out of the TubeLines collective bargaining structures and reallocate them to the "MATS" function of the LU collective bargaining machinery. One of the effects is that these workers are no longer formally represented...

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