Casualisation and de-staffing

London Underground Fleet workers at Northfields depot are taking four days of strike action against an overbearing and dismissive management culture.

After making various commitments about filling vacancies in fleet depots, LUL bosses have begun backsliding.

There's a good write-up on the On London website about the ongoing campaign of outsourced track workers to improve their conditions.

An article in the current On The Move, TfL's in-house staff magazine, praises TfL Transport Support and Enforcement (TSE) officers for helping reunite a family that had become separated.

It's now two weeks and counting for the ongoing cyber attack at TfL. The latest developments have seen staff queuing for hours for in-person resets of our e-accounts - something union reps have rightly been insisting must take place in work time, rather than in workers' own time.

The latest edition of Tubeworker, a socialist industrial bulletin for London Underground workers, by London Underground workers.

📢 Tubeworker public (Zoom) meeting Thursday 15 February, 15:00-17:00 Log in via Zoom here. 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 private...

Once you've worked for LUL for long enough, you learn to tune out the spin management ritualistically churn out in response to every strike announcement. "We are disappointed"... "we urge the unions to return to negotiation"... and usually, "striking won't change anything." Well, they always say...

New starter CSA2s on stations are coming out of Ashfield House with a CSA1 license, after just a few weeks of training. The additional license means they can be used to cover CSA1 duties straight away. No-one should begrudge CSA2s, the lowest-paid grade on stations, the opportunity to earn a bit of...

The reballot on Bakerloo, District, Central, Hammersmith and City, Victoria and Jubilee lines was successful. Drivers will continue to check their trains before taking them into depots or sidings. As Tubeworker has said previously, ”While there is a specific safety implication for drivers arising...