Staffing Levels

Resisting management's attempts to cut staffing levels

Wot No Supervisor?

Acton Town staff have been alarmed to discover that management expect CSAs to work at stations on their own. Alperton, Park Royal and Sudbury Town all have duty sheets showing CSAs "babysitting" stations this coming week.

We should not tolerate this practice. CSAs are entitled to work with the...

New Jobs, But Not Good News

Edgware Road management want to create three new Station Supervisor jobs. Usually, new jobs would be good news. But in this case, it may not be.

The problem is that these Supervisors will spend all day on the platform, having a go at drivers! And there was us thinking that this is a DMT's job. It...

Two To One

Bank group management are trying to cut from 2 to 1 the number of staff on the westbound Central line platform during the peak. As any Central line driver will tell you, the platform has a very significant curve, and even two staff are barely enough to see the PTI clearly for the full length of a...

Near Miss at Bond Street

In mid-August, there was a shocking incident at Bond Street which goes to show just how dangerous management's understaffing of stations is.

On the eastbound platform during the evening peak, an elderly man fell onto the track. Luckily, two members of the public were able to pull him onto the...

Wanna Borrow our Staff?

Many station groups are struggling with coverage, because of LU management's deliberate strategy of short-staffing. Now it seems that they are trying ever more madcap schemes for patching up the holes.

On the Bakerloo line, management on groups struggling to cover duties are planning to borrow...

Imposed rosters at Kings Cross

When management at King's Cross came up with a new roster, it was put to the staff, who found a few problems with it. So the local union reps started to go through the official channels to get the problems resolved at a higher level. But this has not happened.

Management have now announced that...

Displacements on their Way?

LUL management are again rattling their sabres and threatening to displace CSAs. As readers will recall, the company employs "too many" CSAs (ha ha), mainly as a result of incompetence on its own part and that of its private-sector 'partners'. Seemingly unwilling to let time take its course and...

TubeLines Culls Admin Staff

TubeLines is cutting a team of 28 admin staff down to just 16. Having announced a consultation about the redundancies - as they are legally obliged to do - the company then moved with undue haste to imsisting that all 28 staff apply for the remaining 16 jobs, in a sick game of muscial chairs where...

No staff for Christmas shoppers!

On the Saturday that Oxford Street was pedestrianised for Christmas shoppers - one of the busiest days of the year - there were only two CSAs working at Tottenham Court Road between 5am and 5pm! This made for a very stressful day for the staff on duty. Problem: the station is staffed to the bare...

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