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Letter: Ticket Office Cuts

Dear Tubeworker

I visited the East End of the District Line and witnessed ticket offices only being allowed to open in the peak and expected to open to give information at other times. Guess what information Joe Public wanted? Can you please sell me a ticket? As the answer was 'no' and a load of...

Farooq Tariq arrested

Letter from Labour Party Pakistan

The General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, comrade Farooq Tariq was arrested from his Lahore office by a heavy contingent of Punjab Police at 1:30 p.m on Friday 4 May. He has been taken to Garhi Shahu police station, Lahore, where he is being detained....

St Pauls: Demanding Dignity

OK, so a station undergoing a refurb is never going to be the most comfortable place to work, but St Pauls became a nightmare. A mess room unfit to eat in, toilets unfit to use, staff feeling vulnerable on the gateline late at night cos the Supervisors' office has been temporarily relocated away...

Chavez vs trade unions in Venezuela

After the attack on Sanitarios Maracay workers recently in Aragua state in Venezuela, more evidence of anti-union activity by the Chavistas.

According to Greg Wilpert on the Venezuelanalysis website:

The UNT-Aragua issued a statement with ten points yesterday, in which it called for union...

Bakerloo line: No to Lone Working

LUL management are trying to impose lone working amongst detrainment staff at Willesden Junction and Harrow & Wealdstone. At the moment, minimum staffing at both stations is two. Not exactly over-staffed, eh? But it's too much for management, who seem willing to leave staff vulnerable to save a few...

CWU's Dave Ward Leaves Labour's Executive

Copied below is a report from the Observer. Ward claims that there is a "conflict of interest" between fighting government policy and sitting on Labour's NEC. Is there?! Back in the 1970s, the Labour Party NEC called a national demonstration against the then Labour government's policy, so presumably...

Wot No Lockers?

Perhaps it's a good job that Metronet workers don't have overalls, cos if they are based at Acton, they'd have nowhere to put them! About 250 engineering grade staff work out of Acton, with five toilets, three showers - and no lockers - between them.

To add insult to injury, they are now barred...

Wot No Overalls?

Metronet workers are missing their overalls. Apparently, Metronet owes the laundry company a shedload of money, so the laundry company won't return the overalls once cleaned!

But it is of no interest to workers which bosses (or accountants) have fallen out with other bosses. What bothers us is...

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