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A long way to go on equality...

The latest edition of TfL's in-house magazine On The Move focuses on women's equality, profiling women workers in various parts of the network and discussing the steps the company has taken to improve the representation of women.

Free public transport? Why not?!

It’s a fairly mainstream view in Britain that healthcare, as a vital public service we all rely on, should be socially provided, for free, and funded by taxation.

Cleaning, catering, security, track protection: in house now!

Cleaners, catering and security staff, track protection workers, and others are employed by private companies rather than by LUL or TfL directly. Contracting out work to private companies is known as “outsourcing”. Invariably, outsourced workers have worse terms and conditions, and less secure work...

Bakerloopy?

An Evening Standard story covering a TfL report about the parlous state of the Bakerloo fleet was greeted with wry amusement in many mess rooms in Bakerloo depots and stations.

Some of the stats (630,500 lost customer hours in 2022-3) are shocking; it’s only thanks to the hard work of staff on the...

The Tube needs proper funding, not Tory posturing

Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall has wheeled out one of her party’s favourite lines, a promise to revoke the nominee passes TfL staff can access for a co-habiting family member or friend.

Hall ridiculously claims that revoking the passes would generate hundreds of millions of additional revenue...

TSSA to ballot CSM members

TSSA is balloting its Customer Service Manager members across LU for industrial action against the ongoing restructure of the grade, with the ballot closing on 7 March.

The ballot is in part the result of pressure to do something, anything, about the restructure of the grade in which TSSA's LU...

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