Stop Job Cuts

Stop Cleaning Cuts

Interserve is planning to slash the number of night cleaners on stations, and to follow this with cuts to day cleaners too.

Under the pretext of an adjustment to its extended contract, the company plans to cut staff numbers, leaving even busy stations with far fewer night cleaners - in some cases...

59 Jobs Saved - Take Action to Save More!

So, the extensive consultation on LUL's ridiculous draft BNS/rosters - y'know - the ones that cut staff to frighteningly inadequate levels - has led to a whole 59 jobs being restored. Added to 56 we saved last year, that's 115 in total. Instead of culling 953 jobs, LUL now intends to cut "only" 838...

Fixed-term contract CSAs: fight for your future!

All new CSAs employed since the middle of last year have been taken on on fixed-term contracts - most for 12 months, some for 16, but some for less (nine or six).

These fixed-term posts were created unilaterally by LU without agreement from any union. They're a big setback; directly-employed work...

Project Guardian?

Transport for London has relaunched "Project Guardian", encouraging people to report unwanted sexual behaviour on public transport via text or phone. 90% of these crimes go unreported.

It's good that TfL is encouraging people to report crimes and giving them more ways of doing so, but is this being...

Wot No Monitors? (Thank heavens for station staff...)

Technical problems led to monitors in Victoria Line train cabs going out of action on Tuesday 13 April.

That meant, at many busy stations, drivers relying more heavily than normal on CSAs doing SATS duties to make sure it was safe to close doors and move off. Teamwork between drivers and station...

Ticket Office Closure Trial: A Failure and a Farce

Two trial closures of Lancaster Gate Station ticket office resulted in chaos for customers and abuse for staff.

On the first day, the station was short staffed. No additional management were sent to assist. Staff were verbally abused.

On the second trial day, the ticket machines broke down...

Return to Sender

Full-time station staff are today receiving letters from LUL informing us of the outcome of the location preferencing process.

It looks like around 1,000 staff are to be displaced to locations where they do not want to work - and some are even finding themselves working further away from home than...

Customer Disservice

A Tubeworker correspondent writes...

Our "Passenger-Operated Machines" (POMs) at Tube stations have recently been re-programmed to keep hold of the money, or charge the punters' bank accounts, in the event of a "failed sale" (where the desired and paid-for ticket or Oyster product doesn't arrive)....

Every Job Still Matters!

Everyone likes a sporting metaphor, right? So here's one Tubeworker correspondent's assessment of the state of play in the fight against job cuts and ticket office closures: it's 3-1 to management, with 80 minutes on the clock.

Management took the lead early on by announcing their radical...

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