Promotion

Battling your way through the Tube's chaotic promotion system

A Sick Proposal

If you followed the links in management's report of the latest Company Council meeting, you may have noticed that the company proposes blocking staff from transfer or promotion if you have a warning.

Given that managers chuck around attendance warnings like confetti, this will mean hundreds of...

Not Good Enough to Drive?

London Underground have decided that the internal applications for train driver are not good enough, so they are going to look elsewhere - and recruit externally.

What an insult! If applicants have been failing, it's because the company's application system is at fault! Many of us know from first-...

Nine Per Line?

Word has it that management have ordered that at least nine stations posts are held vacant on each line. So that's 100ish across the job.

Which means 100ish staff who should be able to move up the career ladder or transfer to a station they prefer being blocked from doing so. It means 100ish...

CSA Forever?

Congratulations to everyone who passed the SCRA assessment. If your name's in the Traffic Circular, it's time to nominate a position.

But we can't help noticing the Traffic Circular's list of names is rather long. There are more people on the list than the number of SCRA jobs across the...

Instructor Operators On The Cheap?

The Hammersmith and City line needs some more Instructor Operators, what with the S stock 'n' all. So, that'd be permanent posts and promotion opportunities for drivers, then? Oh no.

Management reckon they can do it on the cheap, by offering secondments or even some form of higher-grade working! So...

Promotion Out of Reach

Did you apply for the SS3 posts advertised in the Traffic Circular?

Tubeworker was faintly surprised to see it, as we thought the grade of SS3 was no more. (Good riddance to it, as it's a lower-paid version of Supervisor grades that have the same qualification / licensing requirements.) But...

No Promotion!

There have been so few promotional opportunities in LU recently that last week’s Station Supervisor campaign was a much-needed ray of hope. This was soon dashed when staff read they could only apply if able to nominate for a ticket office position. By Friday, the Campaign Recruitment Team said...

2 Won't Do!

Management have a little ploy on stations - slipping in SS2s (or SSMFs) to work on SS1 stations. They did it last year at Warren Street, getting an SRT SS to help out on the night turn during the refurb. Now they are trying it at Waterloo, getting SS2/MFs from other groups to come and work on the...

Staff Giveaway

The absolute cheek of it! Management, having enticed staff to apply for RCI and discovered that far more of us passed than they anticipated (perhaps they underestimate our talents!), have written to some of those on the training waiting list asking us if we want to go and work on the buses!

We kid...

Why Are We (Still) Waiting?

Remember management promising to create the grade of SA(CR) coach, so that all those Stations Assistants (Control Room) who have been coaching other staff in the role could actually get some reward ie. dosh? Hmm, well they might have agreed it a year ago, but they still haven't delivered the...

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