Night Tube

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...

At 00:45 on Saturday 4 December, a customer ended up on the track at Tottenham Court Station, on the eastbound Central line.

Later that day, both the Daily Mail and the Guardian ran articles effectively blaming RMT Night Tube strikes for the crowding on the platform, that they linked to the person...

The strike action on 26 and 27 November caused widespread disruption across the network. Solid pickets across the affected lines meant bosses were often unable to run even token services. Attempts to run a shuttle service between Cockfosters and Arnos Grove on the Picc soon came to nothing....

RMT has called strikes in its dispute to stop the consolidation of train operator grades. LU wants to merge the Night Tube duties, currently worked by a dedicated grade of driver, into the full-time rosters, offering full-time drivers a shift supplement to work them.

Although part-time drivers...

RMT has again announced strikes over Night Tube “grade consolidation”, as management are intent on destroying work/life balance and bumping up dangerous, fatigue inducing shift patterns in order to save themselves some cash. The first 24-hour strike is on 26 November, followed by strikes during...

As the reopening of Night Tube approaches, spare a thought for those stations where one of their Night Tube lines is reopening, but the other one is not.

Night Tube's late-night-party clientele will undoubtedly include people who have not twigged that only two lines are reopening, or did know but...

Tubeworker readers may be interested in this article addressing the hopes that the reopening of Night Tube will make women safer.

RMT suspended the second set of strikes in the Night Tube driver consolidation dispute. As Tubeworker reported earlier in August we believed the suspension was a misstep. There is little reason to believe that this further suspension will not weaken the dispute further.

The reasons to suspend are...

RMT has called off drivers' strikes against Night Tube grade consolidation, planned for 3-5 August. Whilst we respect the views of comrades who argued for suspension, we believe this decision is wrong.

LU has paused implementation of its grade consolidation plan, and has committed to further...