Station Supervisors: How Safe Is Your Job?

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Tubeworker warned earlier this year that Station Supervisors' jobs were under threat, as the new Rule Books stripped the grade of many of its responsibilities. Now Supervisors have even more reason to fear for the future of their jobs - and more reason to fight back to defend them.

Firstly, management look set to bring back their proposal for group station control rooms. And secondly, at some stations - an example being Canons Park - they are closing a ticket office currently opened and staffed by the Station Supervisor. Ask yourself: why would LUL close a ticket office in this situation, while still employing a Supervisor and therefore not saving any money? We strongly suspect that the company's intention is not to continue employing the SS.

Management's vision of the future is a group station control room, say at Wembley Park, with a Control Room Assistant keeping an eye on the CCTV monitors and help points at Canons Park, which has no ticket office and 'no need' for a Station Supervisor. This could cost dozens of jobs at smaller stations, those that one Line General Manager described as "little more than bus stops".

As if the ticket office cuts are not bad enough on their own, they will usher in even worse. Which begs the question ... Why on earth are the unions not doing more to fight them?!

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