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Since Aslef called its week of rolling one-day strikes on the 16 TOCs in the national pay dispute, the union has been waiting to see if any of the companies would actually use the Minimum Service Level legislation to compel union members to work.

So far one, Transpennine Express, has announced...

Aslef has announced more strikes on pay, alongside nine days of a rest-day working ban. It is not clear whether TOCs will actually issue "work notices". It would be foolish, though, to assume that TOCs will hold off forever.

All four LUL unions have now re-entered pay talks with the company, with Mayor Khan's promise of £30m extra funding now on the table. To ensure we get the best outcome possible, we need the maximum possible transparency in those talks.

RMT has suspended the strikes planned for the rest of this week, after an intervention from City Hall which commits £30 million of new money to re-opened pay negotiations. In the coming days, Tubeworker will host contributions from LU workers giving different views and responses to the suspension...

Our week of action is now underway, after an RMT reps' meeting rightly decided that some crumbs from the bosses' table weren't enough to cancel our strikes.

With no movement on the basic pay element of management's offer, which remains at 5%, and no flat-rate minimum for the lowest-paid, it's...

The final edition of Tubeworker bulletin of 2023 is now online.

Click here to read the bulletin.

This edition looks forwards to strike over LUL pay in January, and encourages all readers to support ABM cleaners' industrial action ballot.

Everyone on LU, directly-employed or outsourced, is part of a collective. We all contribute our labour to ensure the system can run. If any group of workers face unsafe or exploitative conditions, that’s a problem for all of us.

Station staff, drivers, train maintainers, engineers and office...

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is to carry out yet another investigation into yet another incident where track workers have been injured.

This one happened on the Isle of Wight in the small hours on 22 November, when a road-rail vehicle (RRV) collided with a hand trolley between...

Remember the Tory government trumpeting its Great British Railways (GBR) gimmick as a move to return coherence to the national railway? And remember that one of the ways that it was going to do that was by running a centralised online ticket-selling service?

Well, guess what? It has decided not to...

I'm an Aslef driver for a mainline Train Operating Company. I have been on strike multiple times, most recently in early December, to win a better pay deal.