Piccadilly line

Uncovered Duty Leads to Staff Assault

LU management are leaving shedloads of duties uncovered because they reckon they are 'not essential'. Not essential to their money-saving or job-cutting plans, maybe, but Tubeworker reckons that they are very much essential to customer service and staff safety.

And here's a case in point. When a...

Tube Lines Derailed

Wednesday saw little sign of any Picc line trains in central London, with an early-doors derailment that sent the job well and truly up the wall.

It seems that in its dying days, Tube Lines has really excelled itself, as it managed to derail an engineering train in an area (Earls Court) without any...

SRT and Supervisors Unite!

Three staff from the Special Requirements Team smelt a rat when they were rushed at short notice to Green Park Station and arrived to find hardly any rostered staff present.

The Supervisors were unhappy that SRT had been sent blatantly to cover duties. The SRT rang their manager who gave them the...

Here Comes the Sun

'The Sun' took an interest in tube stations shutting last week, as a short closure of Arsenal station gave it an excuse to trot out the old anti-union cliches about railworkers mucking up the service by demanding too many tea breaks.

The truth of the matter is that a member of station staff at...

Freudian Slip?

It seems that a big cheese manager, keen to bolster staff morale, was careless enough to describe the Piccadilly line as the "workhouse" of the Underground when he surely meant the "workhorse".

The workhouse, might we remind him, was a hated feature of the 19th and early 20th century Poor Laws...

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...

Reinstate Mercy Odisi!

London Underground has sacked Mercy Odisi, Green Park SAMF and RMT rep, over ticket office irregularities.

But the real "irregularity" in the ticket office is LUL's ridiculous accountancy system. Under this silly procedure, introduced a couple of years ago, ticket sellers don't even count their...

Access Denied!

The new One London internet system is here. We were warned of ‘teething problems’ but can’t help wondering if it was intentional that reps in various locations have had to fight to get their internet access back.
New restrictions on internet access have aggrieved many staff. Unhappy drivers at...

Defend Tony Crump!

LUL has summarily dismissed Earls Court signaller Tony Crump, for a mistake at work.

Until quite recently, if you made a mistake at work, even a serious one, you could expect a punishment, retraining and/or maybe an alternative job. But the current London Underground management regime simply boots...

Picc Drivers Stand Firm for Zak

Stonking ballot results on the Picc line, as Arnos Grove drivers voted 100% for industrial action in defence of Zak Khan on a turnout of over 50%. Acton Town drivers were not far behind with their vote for action in protest at the Picc's harsh disciplinary regime.

Tubeworker confidently predicts...

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