The local RMT and ASLEF reps at East Finchley depot have produced a joint leaflet telling drivers about Driving Parameters and their rights at work. This follows a joint newsletter produced by the two union reps last year.
ASLEF's hierarchy have frowned on this, due to their silly, sectarian policy...
The ticket offices LUL proposes to close are:
Barkingside, Becontree, Boston Manor, Buckhurst Hill, Cannon Street, Canons Park, Chesham, Chiswick Park, Chorleywood, Croxley, Debden, East Putney, Fairlop, Hornchurch, Goldhawk Road, Ickenham, Latimer Road, Mansion House, Mill Hill East, Moor Park...
What do you get for working faster and harder than you need to? The sack - if you're on the GrantRail/TrackWork contract with TubeLines, that is.
They were working to a 7-and-a-half year contract, but it was subject to annual review, and was completed in 3-and-a-half years. So, in the brave new...
Come to the RMT mass meeting, Thursday 17th May, 18:00, Royal National Hotel
With LUL management about to impose their awful new Rule Book, the unions urgently need a strategy that can effectively defend their members against this threat to our safety and job security. The sad fact is that up until...
Various big cheeses will be gathering for a conference called 'London: the most successful world city?' Come and tell them about the disgrace of a 'world city's' railways being cleaned by...
Tubeworker has reported previously on LUL's removal of Accident Books from workplaces - which, disappointingly, it seems that the unions did nothing to prevent.
LUL claims that the EIRF system covers the legal requirement to have an Accident Book, and has persuaded the spineless HMRI to rubber...
Victoria station needs asbestos removal, and management's plan is that the ticket office should be relocated to a Portakabin outside the mainline station upstairs for the duration of the works.
Station staff are, naturally, concerned that anyone working in the ticket office will be outside the...
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I visited the East End of the District Line and witnessed ticket offices only being allowed to open in the peak and expected to open to give information at other times. Guess what information Joe Public wanted? Can you please sell me a ticket? As the answer was 'no' and a load of...
OK, so a station undergoing a refurb is never going to be the most comfortable place to work, but St Pauls became a nightmare. A mess room unfit to eat in, toilets unfit to use, staff feeling vulnerable on the gateline late at night cos the Supervisors' office has been temporarily relocated away...
LUL management are trying to impose lone working amongst detrainment staff at Willesden Junction and Harrow & Wealdstone. At the moment, minimum staffing at both stations is two. Not exactly over-staffed, eh? But it's too much for management, who seem willing to leave staff vulnerable to save a few...
Perhaps it's a good job that Metronet workers don't have overalls, cos if they are based at Acton, they'd have nowhere to put them! About 250 engineering grade staff work out of Acton, with five toilets, three showers - and no lockers - between them.
To add insult to injury, they are now barred...
Metronet workers are missing their overalls. Apparently, Metronet owes the laundry company a shedload of money, so the laundry company won't return the overalls once cleaned!
But it is of no interest to workers which bosses (or accountants) have fallen out with other bosses. What bothers us is...
Our beloved leader Tim O'Toole has written to us again. Bless him for taking time out of his busy schedule to keep us informed of the state of play of our magnificent system.
The latest bulletin was to tell us what we already knew, that there was not going to be a bonus this year (or any other, but...
Brixton crossover caused major problems on the Vic last week with a 10mph TSR imposed. So new points were shipped in from Spain and installed on Sunday. Just a few days later, the points failed, necessitating a Victoria-Brixton suspension during the day to replace the points motor!
Coincidence? Or...
DLR workers have won the reinstatement of a workmate after an unjust sacking. The Train Captain had been sacked - upheld on appeal - for driving through a work party, even though his duties appeared to require him to be at both ends of the train at the same time, and even though a colleague had not...
A Northern Line DMT on a driving day had an aggravated SPAD. He got a 12-month suspended sacking - but was returned to work at his own depot!
How can he have any credibility dealing with drivers over SPADs when he has disregarded the rules so flagrantly?
P-Way staff at West Kensington got thoroughly fed up with the squalor of the P-Way Cabin. So what did they do? Put up with it? Moan to each other and do nothing? No, they refused to work on the grounds of health and safety and booked on at Griffith House instead.
Then, all of a sudden, after...
SPADs have shot up over the last year, rising 18% from 775 last year to a whopping 951 this year.
The cause? Well, remember Tubeworker reporting on those impractical new timetables on the Northern, Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines? Could it be that if you cram too many trains in, then drivers come up...
On 11th November, a bunch of Silverlink stations will transfer to 'London Rail', and their employment will transfer to LUL. So, of course, we would expect that their pay and conditions in their new job would be exactly the same as that of their LUL workmates.
But not necessarily. LUL management...
'Free Oyster cards' scream the headlines, and of course lots of people don't read on and examine the small print. Which says that no, you can't just walk up to a ticket office to get yours, you have to apply online or phone up.
And because they don't read the small print, they do walk up to a...
A group of cleaners and other union activists met on Saturday to take stock of how the cleaners' campaign is going and decide our next steps.
The union's success in stopping 200 redundancies from ISS has been followed by a well attended demonstration outside the mayor's office for a 'Living Wage...
A night station supervisor at Dagenham East station was disgusted to find the sanitary bin in the toilets overflowing and its contents spilling accross the floor. He reported the fault, but was told it couldn't be dealt with until late the following morning.
It is clear that the 'specialist'...
(This is an initial assessment, as Tubeworker gets to grips with the facts and the issues. Comments and disagreements are, as ever, welcome.)
RMT has called off its strike action on Metronet after what appears to be a full capitulation by management. The union had demanded that the Infraco drop...
Under the new Rule Book, Station Supervisors lose the following responsiblities:
At the Stations Functional Council meeting yesterday, LUL management dropped their bombshell - 40 ticket office to close completely, 240 SAMF jobs to go. That's "bombshell" not in the sense of being a surprise: it has long been obvious that further attacks were on the cards. (The Workers' Liberty pa...
It is now common knowledge that there was a violent incident after the recent RMT regional council meeting. The union's head office is investiging allegations against both the regional organiser and a rep. Tubeworker is not going to comment on the specifics of the allegations, as we do not want to...
Cleaners on the Underground often experience aggressive bullying from their supervisors. No worker should have to experience such degrading treatment as part of their job. It further highlights the lack of respect that cleaning companies have for their workers.
But here's an example of how station...
The Metronet strike next week should be a chance for all of us on London Underground who hate PPP - most of us! - to fight the privatisation agenda by showing solidarity with striking contractors.
But some LUL staff have the attitude of 'why should I care about their rights and struggles? We never...
Tubeworker's off to Birmingham for the day on Saturday 5th May.
In the morning, there is a Rail4John meeting (leaflet here), and an Off The Rails meeting - Making Our Unions Fit to Fight in the afternoon.
Both meetings are at the Comfort Inn, a few minutes walk from New Street station.
Managers are now giving the new Rule Book out to staff.
LUL has presented this as mainly just a make-over, replacing the unwieldy old Working Reference Manual with the shiny, new, easy-to-read, user-friendly Rule Books. If that was all it is, then fine. But it's not.
Read the little pamphlet that...
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