Casualisation and de-staffing

Agency staff, security guards, ticket office job cuts, external recruitment, ... London Underground's drive to cut staffing levels and casualise the workforce, and the workforce's resistance ...

No cuts to Wembley Central event staff!

Wembley Park, the main station serving Wembley Stadium, currently has additional support from the Special Requirements Team for match days and events. Wembley Central, not quite as close to the stadium but also used to access it, has less SRT support but has its own additional event staff complement...

Picc fleet workers vote for strikes

Fleet workers on the Picc have returned a thumping majority for strikes in their fight for permanent jobs, easily clearing the thresholds of the Trade Union Act.

144 workers were balloted, with 121 (84%) returning their ballot papers. 115 voted for strikes, and 119 for action short of strikes. Six...

World Cup "Common Sense"

"Businesses hail 'victory for common sense'", the Evening Standard bellows, announcing Transport for London's decision to lay on extra night bus services after England's first World Cup game on Saturday. The Standard claims its "appeal" for the extra transport is what swayed TfL.

So much...

Rule Book changes help job cuts

We all knew that LU couldn't implement station staff cuts without rewriting the LU Rule Book. Changes will come into effect on Monday 28 April... the first day of our next strike.

Worryingly, "The requirement for accessing a station when closed or unstaffed", which has applied to surface stations...

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...

Positions Deleted?

Hidden in the back of the latest Traffic Circular, there is a section entitled: ‘changes to part time customer service positions’. It lists 'positions removed', i.e. jobs that have been abolished: two at Paddington Sub; one at Barkingside and one at Leytonstone.

LU can't just 'delete' positions!...

Mobile Supervision Makes a Comeback

In April, Tubeworker reported that mobile station supervision was creeping onto LU stations, with reports of supervisors covering Turnham Green, Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury Stations simultaneously.

Now London Underground has written to the RMT, saying 'mobile station supervision' in this area has...

Justice for the 33!

The 33 agency workers who were dismissed from LU in January are still campaigning hard. They’ve been doing a ‘walkabout’ of London Underground stations and depots to spread the campaign.

The 33 are demanding to be taken on as LU employees. By taking an unprecedented stand against the agency...

LU Workers Stand Up for the 33!

It’s excellent that RMT has decided to seriously prepare all LU grades to ballot for strike action to win jobs for the 33 agency workers, who have been jobless since January.

LU callously kicked them onto the dole in January when it terminated the contract with the Trainpeople agency. In...

Mobile Supervision

Station Supervisors at Turnham Green hold the keys for Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury Stations: they're effectively supervising three stations at once.

On the High Barnet Group, station supervisors have been asked to hand keys for unstaffed adjacent stations to contractors. Again, this is mobile...

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