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Health & safety issues on London's Transport

Detrainment fight is opportunity to build unity

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 calls strikes on Bakerloo line

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...

Put drivers in the picture

Recently it seems service control on the Picc has lost its way on incident management. No updates, missing calls, not putting trains away, acting as if they won't make decisions — all while drivers get made late and then have to demand a reluctant desk to actually do something.

Perhaps incidents...

Drivers: safety first!

Reports reach Tubeworker of service control managers trying to push drivers into over-carrying passengers who won't or can't be removed from trains into sidings.

It seems drivers' safety comes in second to getting the trains off the running line.

Drivers should remember to get to a place of...

Return to "Flash and Dash" risks jobs and safety

In the same month the Women’s Night Safety Charter was publicised in TfL's in-house magazine On the Move, London Underground detailed plans to remove manual detrainment, in favour of that old favourite "flash and dash".

"Flash and dash" is the process where the train operator will only have to...

Safety comes first

Now South Harrow Sidings is partially opened, management are hoping that the 15 minute chat and video are enough to get drivers to go in and out with no problem. Unfortunately for us the ballot failed that could have seen legal action short of strike to refuse to do the moves in and out of the...

Lift Off

The extreme heat on Monday and Tuesday saw some station closures, including Oxford Circus, which closed for a couple of hours due to a fire alert, caused by a part in an escalator machine chamber overheating, and Lambeth North, which had to close when its lifts overheated.

Part of our role as...

All in it together?

Building common organisation and power is undermined when workers in “higher” grades abuse the authority that gives them to lord it over workers in “lower” ones.

An example? CSAs at some stations during the recent heatwave have reported Customer Service Supervisors and Customer Service Managers...

More hot air from management?

This week, we've all been struggling to cope with the unprecedented heat levels, but gateline colleagues at Old Street have surely been handed a particularly raw deal.

It's been reported that the air conditioning unit in the managers' office has a hot air exhaust pipe that's been piping hot air...

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