Olympics

Olympic Chaos

LU has recently stated that certain busy stations, e.g. Stratford, will routinely have an ‘open gate’ policy during the Olymics in order to avoid dangerous congestion. They hope to resolve passengers’ journeys at the exit station.

This amounts to an open admission that there will be insufficient...

Not For Sale

LU management put a leaflet out round stations telling us what a good offer the company is making for the Olympics. Apparently, we'll get £350 (before tax) on top of a £20 attendance bonus - and all we have to do is sell our Framework Agreement.

Two minor points the leaflets overlook. Firstly, that...

Just In Time?

No doubt to save money, LU have waited to the absolute last minute to recruit staff for the Olympics.

For about three years on stations, LU was leaving vacancies un-filled in preparation for last year's jobs cull. In the end they left more un-filled than the number of places they needed to abolish...

Why Wi-Fi?

Virgin Media are bringing WiFi to 80 Tube stations in time for the Olympics. It'll work on the platforms but not the trains, so it seems a lot of hype for nothing. Maybe TfL hope this will help take your mind off overcrowded platforms if your train is severely delayed?

Virgin apparently won a...

The Great Olympics Giveaway?

The Olympics has put us in a position of relative strength. London Underground need our co-operation for this high profile event.

They want us to work harder, to deal with unprecedented passenger numbers and extend the Tube's opening hours til 2 or 3am.

In return for the increase and importance...

Our Olympics Demands

Here we re-post what we wrote back in October when Olympics talks were just underway.

'In Olympics negotiations, all companies have been dividing and distracting us. It is time the unions on London Transport set out our demands publicly for every company, so that all staff know not just what...

No Reward

LU station staff have been gobsmacked by LU's pathetic £15 per shift 'Olympics Reward' offer.

It is attendance-based, so if you’re sick or take annual leave over summer for childcare, then you won’t get it all.

LU had the cheek to present the offer as £400 – re-branding quarter 2 of our existing...

Bonus Time!

How lovely, receiving confirmation that we reached the magic target to get our CSS bonus.

And we are sure it is entirely a coincidence that this good news arrived at just the time that management want us to accept that our Olympic bonus should be based on the same CSS system. The CSS system means...

Our Olympics Demands

In Olympics negotiations, all companies have been dividing and distracting us. It is time the unions on London Transport set out our demands publicly for every company, so that all staff know not just what management have offered but what we are fighting for.

LU management have sown division...

No to this Olympics 'Deal'!

So (as Tubeworker predicted), ASLEF has agreed to put all train drivers' frameworks to one side for a month during the Olympics. This for £500 plus overtime. It may sound good in the long run, but £500 to lose our hard-won conditions, for the next 40 years the younger of us could be train ops...

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