Attendance and Discipline

Tube employers' policies on sickness, absence and discipline - and our efforts to fight for justice

Keep BWCs voluntary!

Rumours abound that LUL is about to make the use of Body Worn Cameras (BWCs) compulsory for station staff. As of now, using BWCs is voluntary.

Tubeworker has always opposed the imposition of this technology. We understand that BWCs make some staff feel safer, and there is some evidence to suggest...

Tube bosses unveil “attendance” plans

It's over three months since we took any strike action. The momentum has been very much with the bosses in that time - although they've been pushed back slightly on CSA job cuts on stations, they've announced a new raft of cuts in the CSM grade and are pressing ahead with "Trains Modernisation", job...

Gett-ing out of here?

Barely a week goes by without hearing some horror story about the staff taxi service the company puts on to get staff in for dead earlies and home from dead lates. Taxi routes get arbitrarily merged, meaning we get taken round the houses and get home much later than the scheduled time. Sometimes...

Green Park/Euston strike suspended as progress made

RMT has called off a planned strike at Green Park and Euston stations on 3 June, after LU finally agreed to a meaningful review into management bullying.

That's important progress. But the review is only a first step; if it doesn't lead to a change in the managerial culture, strikes must be...

Adding Insult to Injury

Nearly ten years after our unions first asked it to, TfL/LUL is finally adopting a policy on domestic abuse - though you would think from its self-congratulatory fanfare that it was the company's idea all along.

However, it has missed the opportunity to make clear that sickness absence due to...

Green Park/Euston station staff to strike against bullying bosses

Station workers at Green Park and Euston will strike on Friday 3 June against a long-running culture of management intimidation and bullying.

Senior management has stonewalled RMT reps, denying them any recourse to meaningfully remedy the issues surrounding bullying and an overbearing, excessively...

Yes to vaccines, no to a punitive attendance policy

Tubeworker is pro-vaccine and urges workmates to get their jabs. We're alarmed by the anti-vax misinformation that we've seen some workmates circulate on social media.

But we oppose LU’s decision to differentiate between jabbed and unjabbed staff under the Attendance At Work policy. Presumably LU...

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