Stop Job Cuts

Tube Ads Add Insult To Injury

Not content with cutting around 850 jobs and shutting every ticket office on the underground, LUL have also launched a spin campaign which make even Tony Blair nauseous.

The ads include promo for "Travel Information Centres" (which obviously omit to mention that all ticket offices will close), and...

Thirty Minutes?

Management's offer that no-one will be displaced more than 30 minutes travelling time from your current location sounds quite good, doesn't it?

Don't celebrate yet, though: not until you've sat down with a map and worked out how far that can take you. For most central London stations, 30 minutes...

Falling Rocks

Yesterday morning, the job really did go right up the wall.

We reported just a few weeks back about lumps of concrete falling onto tracks and endangering life and limb. That time, it was on the Central Line, this time it's the Met/H&C.

The falling rock fouled the juice rails and the running rails...

Rule Book changes help job cuts

We all knew that LU couldn't implement station staff cuts without rewriting the LU Rule Book. Changes will come into effect on Monday 28 April... the first day of our next strike.

Worryingly, "The requirement for accessing a station when closed or unstaffed", which has applied to surface stations...

LU's equality and inclusion hypocrisy

LU promotes inclusion, equality, and diversity in its training and every promotional interview. Good. No worker benefits from working for an employer that fosters prejudice amongst its workforce. But when it comes to putting its money where its mouth is, LU's record isn't so great.

Women make up...

Why we still need to fight

LU management is claiming it has made significant changes to the "Fit for the Future — Stations" proposals. Tubeworker isn't sure the changes are so significant...

  • LU has said it will do more to "protect wages". The original plan involved compulsory pay cuts for most SAMFs, SCRAs, and many...
  • Who is Incompetent?

    It's insulting that LU has quoted figures to say 'only 12% of SSMFs, 24% SS2s and 34% of SS1s are Competence Management System qualified'.

    LU is trying to make out that existing staff are not qualified to do the jobs that LU is trying to abolish.

    How dare they insult us like this? If we were not...

    The Date Is Set - Time To Act

    So now we know the date that London Underground Ltd will announce Armageddon Day for stations - next Thursday, 21 November. We can expect huge job losses, ticket office closures, and some kind of daft reorganisation to go with it. All of this will be justified by some guff about efficiency, modern...

    Staff Cuts Make Storm Hit Harder

    As Tubeworker sits here blogging, news is coming out of train services shutting down because of the impending storm. Is this because the private rail network is taking sensible precautions to protect passenger safety? Or because Network Rail has got rid of so many maintenance workers since the last...

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