District line

RMT detrainment re-ballot: vote yes to renew mandate

RMT is re-balloting driver members on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, and Victoria lines to renew an industrial action mandate in the dispute over the imposition of "flash-and-dash", the unsafe detrainment method whereby drivers are expected to simply flash in-car...

Vote to strike in ballot on parking

From 1 October all existing car parking for Acton Town District line drivers and REW Acton Works will be removed. RMT is now balloting over the issue. The new and very expensive housing development on Bollo Lane had parking for staff rejected at the planning stage. Management chose not to appeal...

Ballot successful on detrainment fight

The reballot on Bakerloo, District, Central, Hammersmith and City, Victoria and Jubilee lines was successful. Drivers will continue to check their trains before taking them into depots or sidings.

As Tubeworker has said previously, ”While there is a specific safety implication for drivers arising...

Union sounds alarm on 4LM

RMT safety reps have raised a number of safety concerns with Thales' "Four Lines Modernisation" (4LM) signaling system, due to convert the Sub-Surface Railway (District, Hammersmith & City, Circle, and Metropolitan lines) to automatic signaling.

The project has been plagued with waste and errors...

Missing the point(s)

For more than a month the Piccadilly line had had two sets of points out of action. At both South Harrow and Northfields trains have been restricted by one fewer reversing move and all Heathrow trains have been forced down the local at Acton Town.

This was causing delays as all the Heathrow and...

Detrainment dispute heats up as drivers vote for action

LUL drivers' fight against the removal of detrainment duties, and the imposition of the "flash-and-dash" system for detraining, is heating up. Both RMT and Aslef have successfully achieved industrial action mandates.

RMT balloted all affected lines together, while Aslef balloted on a line-by-line...

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...

OT ban bites on day one!

We're less than 24 hours in to RMT's overtime ban on stations, and it's already beginning to bite. We knew it had LU rattled, as they've been broadcasting PAs informing passengers about "industrial action between 3 June and 10 July", the period of the ban, and telling them to expect station closures...

Return of the Flash and Dash?

Remember the Flash and Dash? Yes, management's absurd plan that instead of physically checking that all passengers are off the train before driving it into a depot or sidings, it's fine for the driver to just flash the lights and make a PA. No need to worry about those pesky passengers who aren't...

4LM Depots and Sidings: No to ATO

LUL management seem determined to impose automatic train operation (ATO) even in teh largest and most complex depots and sidings.

Every Tube worker knows that depots and sidings contain extra hazards. Unpredictable train movements, people walking across the track, cleaning and maintenance work and...

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