New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online!
The latest edition of our bulletin is now online.
The latest edition of our bulletin is now online.
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...
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...
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 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...
Hitachi Rail workers on the East Coast mainline contract launched a further round of strikes on 10 February.
They previously struck from 27 January-1 February. The new phase of action will see them strike for eight days discontinuously between 10 and 24 February. Workers are fighting for an...
London Underground Ltd. has made a new pay offer to our unions, details of which can be read in this RMT bulletin.
📢 Tubeworker public (Zoom) meeting
Thursday 15 February, 15:00-17:00
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Thousands of workers across London Underground and TfL are outsourced, meaning they are not employed directly by LUL or TfL but by private contractors. The biggest outsourced contract is cleaning, with...
Solidarity from Off The Rails to rail (and bus) workers in Northern Ireland who are striking today.
The UK government has used the pretext of the political stalemate to refuse to fund a pay rise. Now that stalemate is over - pay up!
Aslef drivers at multiple Train Operating Companies (TOCs) are striking again, one day each between 30 Jan and 5 Feb at different TOCs, and launching an overtime ban. Southeastern, Southern, Gatwick Express, South Western Railway, Great Northern and Thameslink drivers strike on Tuesday 30 January...
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