Docklands Light Railway

Reports of issues and struggles form the DLR

DLR strikes announced

After their strike ballot returned a 9-1 majority in favour of striking, DLR staff will be out from 29-31 January and from 4-6 February, in two 48-hour strikes. They'll also be taking action short of strikes in the form of a rest-day working and overtime ban from 31 January to 1 February.

The...

DLR staff - vote Yes!

Balloting closes on Thursday for industrial action on the Docklands Light Railway - both for Serco Docklands staff and for cleaners and security guards employed by Carlisle. In other words, both the contractor and the contractor's contractor!

The Serco dispute is about a range of workplace problems...

A Rare Win in Court!

RMT has won a major court victory against injunctions preventing a strike on the Docklands Light Railway; and on the same day, ASLEF also won its appeal against an injunction banning strike action by its members working for London Midland.

The High Court granted the injunction to Serco...

Anti-Union Judges Strike Again

A judge has banned the DLR strike that was supposed to happen today and tomorrow - and his ruling further tightens the anti-democratic grip that the anti-union laws have on our right to fight back.

RMT's ballot notification had not broken any existing anti-union law - so the judge invented a new...

DLR: Squaring Up for a Fight

DLR management are attacking the workforce on several fronts - so the workforce is uniting to fight back.

First off, they weren't even going to bother compensating workers for the extra workload involved in 3-car running, until a strike ballot made them back down. Now, management are breaking the...

DLR Workers Reject Offer

DLR workers have voted to reject the company's latest offer, and RMT has named three strike dates - 23 & 27 July and 6 August.

The offer was simply not good enough to make up for the extra workload brought by three-car trains. And management were cheeky in trying to bring in 'productivity' on the...

DLR Strike

DLR workers will strike at the same time as Tube Lines, having asked RMT to move their original strike dates so that the two workforces will strike together and therefore maximise their effectiveness and solidarity.

DLR has recently increased train length from two to three cars, and while this self...

DLR Fined Over Death

Serco Docklands has been fined nearly half a million quid after one of its trains killed a man who had strayed onto the track.

Another passenger alerted the police, who asked the control room to check, but they could not spot anyone on track. It was only when they spotted a copper on the...

DLR: Vote Yes!

Docklands Light Railway have been trying for a while to impose new control room rosters that do away with 12-hour weekend shifts and 24 rest days per year. Unsurprisingly, DLR control room staff are in no mood to accept this.

They voted to strike earlier this year, but RMT suspended the strike when...

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