Central line

Stations, revenue, Central Line west end drivers: see you on the picket lines!

With Acas talks in the station staffing dispute ending without any new offer from the company, the joint RMT/TSSA strike on stations is on for 8-9 January.

Striking alongside station and revenue staff will be Central Line drivers at White City and West Ruislip depots, who are taking action aimed...

Hell No, We Won't Go

This week, twelve drivers at Leytonstone and Hainault have received letters displacing them from their depots from January, eight of them to Earls Court. Imagine being at one of these depots, thinking it was your permanent location, then finding that you were expected to travel an extra two hours a...

Reinstate Dean Storey!

RMT is balloting drivers at West Ruislip and White City depots for strikes to win Dean Storey his job back.

Dean had a SPAD at White City, but was unjustly sacked after a perfunctory CDI dismissed or ignored the many mitigating factors Dean's union reps raised.

Every union activists, and most LU...

Snaresbrook stabbing highlights safety concerns

One sometimes wonders just how bad an incident would have to occur for LU to realise their current staffing levels are unsafe.

Someone was stabbed at Snaresbrook station after getting off a Night Tube service on 22 October. Stations at the east end of the Central Line are frequently single-staffed...

Terminating Here

Spare a thought for staff at Loughton station on the first Night Tube night.

The Night Tube service only goes as far as Loughton, so it's a terminal station at night, with all that entails. So you'd think there would be more than one person rostered to work there? Sadly not.

Fortunately, there...

Down in the Tube Station at Midnight

Management are happily slapping each others' backs after the "successful" launch of Night Tube. The media scrum around the Mayor and the 50,000 first-night journeys made good headlines for them. Oh, and there were no actual disasters.

Still, it wasn't them cleaning up vomit, trying to wake...

Fit for Next Weekend?

So, the Night Tube 'dummy run' weekend: how did that go then?

The diplomatic way to put it would be that at least there were no passengers and management have a week to put it right. Their to-do list includes dealing with: signs that point passengers to the closed parts of stations; digital...

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