Disputes

Reports from disputes as they progress, and assessments of them when they are over.

Jobs, pay, Night Tube: prepare to strike!

RMT and ASLEF have both announced they'll be balloting members for strikes in their campaigns for decent pay settlement and a good deal for members on Night Tube. TSSA and Unite have declared disputes with LU on these issues too, and look likely to ballot as well.

The prospect of simultaneous...

DLR workers vote to strike

RMT members working on Docklands Light Railway have returned massive votes for strikes in industrial action ballots.

Workers employed by Keolis/Amey Docklands (KAD), the consortium which runs DLR, voted to strike in their pay campaign, after KAD failed to make an offer that came anywhere near the...

Tube Lines, Thales: Prepare to strike!

RMT members at Tube Lines have overwhelmingly rejected a company proposal to remove rostered rest days. The union is now preparing a strike ballot.

At Thales (one of the companies which provides and maintains various technical infrastructure to LU), workers have voted by 80% for strikes, and...

Consequences

When unions decide whether to call strikes, it is usually after some discussion amongst reps and officials. These discussions will consider how effective any action might be, and what level of support for it there is among members.

Sometimes, people will express concern that if the union calls a...

Drivers to strike against unfair sacking

RMT drivers will strike from 21:30 hours on Saturday 7 March until 03:59 hours on Sunday 8 March 2015, as part of the campaign against the unfair sacking of Morden depot driver Alex McGuigan.

This action is being taken principally to keep the strike ballot live, to allow reps to build and plan...

Every Job Still Matters!

Everyone likes a sporting metaphor, right? So here's one Tubeworker correspondent's assessment of the state of play in the fight against job cuts and ticket office closures: it's 3-1 to management, with 80 minutes on the clock.

Management took the lead early on by announcing their radical...

Drivers' ballot: keep up the fight for justice, no to management meddling!

Drivers in the RMT have voted, by 299 to 221 on a 42% turnout, to strike in protest at the unfair sacking of Northern Line driver Alex McGuigan.

Drivers in Alex's depot, Morden, already held a solid strike in December, after which RMT decided to ballot all driver members.

The issue at the heart of...

Clean up exploitation

The mess of outsourcing on London Underground is allowing cowboy cleaning companies to treat workers like dirt.

LU outsources its cleaning services to giant corporations like Interserve and ISS. Their workers face low pay, bullying and harassment from bosses, invasive biometric fingerprinting...

RMT drivers: vote for strikes against abuse of procedures! Justice for Alex!

RMT has begun balloting is driver members across the combine for strikes to protest at the unfair sacking of Northern Line driver Alex McGuigan. Tubeworker urges all our RMT-member T/Op readers to vote yes.

The issue at the heart of the dispute is a simple one. The procedure used to sack Alex was...

Strike Threat Forces Management to Talk Pay Rise

For nearly two years, Waterloo & City line service control staff have been refusing overtime in pursuit of their entirely justified claim for higher pay to reflect the complexity of their work. Nothing doing. Management didn't care.

So they stepped it up. Balloted for strike action. Got a 100% Yes...

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