Stop Job Cuts

Met South station staff to strike

Station staff on the Metropolitan South Cover Group, which includes Baker Street and Wembley Park, will strike on Friday 18 August. The strike also includes Night Tube staff at Baker Street.

They’re striking to protest the recent imposition of reduced staffing levels and worse rosters, which have...

Detrainment dispute: renew the mandate, link the fights!

RMT is re-balloting train operator members on the Bakerloo, District, Central, Hammersmith and City, and Jubilee lines to renew the mandate for industrial action in the dispute over the removal of detrainment duties on stations.

Ballot papers go out on 27 July, and the ballot closes on 17 August. T...

"Flash and dash" roster chaos

On the Jubilee Line, management have brought in "flash and dash" rosters at Wembley Park, Willesden Green and West Hampstead, meaning there are not enough station staff to detrain trains.

Unfortunately for management, train drivers on the line, and across LU, are refusing to "flash and dash" as it...

OT ban pushed as bosses budge on jobs

RMT has suspended an overtime and rest day working plan on LUL stations, due to run from 25 June to 1 July, after bosses budged in talks about jobs cut in a recent rosters and staffing review.

LUL had carried out a programme of 600 job cuts across Tube stations. The company insisted that the jobs...

Union pressure wins minimum number increase at Vauxhall

The RMT had a massive win at Vauxhall station, when on 7 May the minimum staffing number, which stipulates the legally required minimum number of staff to keep the station open was increased, both during the week and at weekends.

This was achieved through the hard work of the local RMT H&S rep, in...

Management forced to reopen discussion on station job cuts as closures spread

Recent days have seen a spate of station closures, with stations including Marble Arch, Temple, Hyde Park Corner, Lancaster Gate, and several others all having to shut due to staff shortages.

Such closures are an inevitable consequence of LUL's recent reductions of staffing levels across multiple...

Minor delays because of...

...Train cancellations. An almost endless update over the radio now particularly on weekends. On 11 March by the time the night turn controllers had booked on there were apparently 69 ONAs on the Picc. Often the service is running with upto 40 but why the big increase? What do management plan to do...

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