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London Overground staff to strike

RMT members working as station staff, revenue staff, and security staff on London Overground will strike on 19-20 February and 4-5 March, as they seek to improve their pay and conditions.

Their employer, Arriva Rail London (ARL), has made a below-inflation pay offer, which workers have rejected...

Fight now on 2024-5 pay!

LUL unions remain in negotiations with the company over how to distribute the £30 million of additional funding secured thanks to RMT's threatened week of action from 5-11 January.

Thales workers vote on pay offer

RMT is recommending members working for Thales (GTS), a signalling and communications system contractor with numerous contracts on TfL/LUL, vote to accept the company's latest pay offer.

Last year, workers told their bosses a 5.5% offer for 2024 was not good enough. The new proposal adds a further...

New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online!

The latest edition of our bulletin, collating content from our blog, is now online. Click here to download the PDF.

This edition reviews the recent developments in the LUL pay dispute, and discusses the implications for union organisation on the job. Plus, an update on the ABM cleaners' ballot, and...

LNER calls off "work notices" threat

BBC News reported on 22 January that "a source" said Train Operating Company LNER had told the Aslef train drivers' union that it no longer intends to put minimum service levels (MSLs) in place.

Flattened Out

It was another autumn/winter of flats on the Piccadilly line, with some days seeing multiple trains being pulled out of service due to the noise.

Management still seem in denial about the scale of any problem. The controllers never suffer from the noise so they won't ever tell us to take a train...

Severe Delays

In news that came as a shock to no one, the date for the new Piccadilly line trains entering full service has been pushed back.

While the first train is still due before the end of 2025 (original date: 2014), the company say that with only half the money promised by government, they've had to push...

CSM restructure is a blow - but we shouldn't defend the former setup

LUL's restructure for Customer Service Managers on stations "went live" on 8 January, prompting some angry responses from workers who felt they hadn't been kept adequately informed of the developments and their implications.

Under the new structure, CSMs can choose between applying for an entirely...

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