Disputes

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...

RMT has announced a strike on 15 March, meaning the two largest unions on LU (RMT and Aslef) will strike together for the first time since 2015. We'll be striking alongside hundreds of thousands of other workers, including teachers, civil servants, university workers, doctors, journalists, and...

Outsourced cleaners, security staff, and revenue protection workers employed by ISS on the Docklands Light Railway are striking from 24-25 February, as they continue their fight for decent pay. ISS has offer just 1.8%; given rising inflation and soaring living costs, the workers have understandably...

Aslef has renewed its industrial action mandate on London Underground... again. It achieved an extremely impressive 99% vote for strikes on a 77% turnout amongst its 1,577 driver members on the Tube.

At this stage, Aslef has had a mandate for industrial action on LU for just shy of three years, and...

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...

RMT members at Transport for London are balloting for industrial action to win a decent settlement on pay and conditions. The ballot opens on 31 January, and runs until 21 February. Tubeworker encourages all readers at TfL to vote yes!

(As there’s sometimes some confusion about this, and especially...

Fleet maintenance workers at Golders Green and Morden depots on the Northern line have voted by a 92% majority for strikes, and by a 94% majority for action short of strikes, in their dispute to win a decent pay settlement. 66% of eligible members voted in the RMT ballot.

Unlike most fleet...

LUL management want to scrap manual detrainment so that they can cut station staff jobs. It would mean rather than a CSA or train op checking each carriage is empty before going into a siding, the train op makes an announcement, flashes the lights, and hopes for the best.

A recent management...

Aslef has called strikes on the Bakerloo line on 4 and 11 February, after drivers voted 99% in favour of industrial action short of strikes, and 95% in favour of strikes, on an 80% turnout. The dispute is over LUL’s plan to remove detrainment duties from Bakerloo line platform, which involve station...

1 February 2023 will be the biggest strike since 2011, when two million workers struck against cuts to public sector pensions. Civil servants, teachers, university workers, mainline train drivers, and others will be striking. With both RMT and Aslef on London Underground having recently renewed...