Stop Job Cuts

London Underground Managing Director has been describing his vision for the future supervision of stations.

Stations Supervisors will be equipped with iPads, not to help us do our jobs, but to replace our jobs. Through these iPads, we will be able to see the view through CCTV cameras at...

Two days of solid strike action have seen London Overground guards seriously crank up the momentum of their fight to save their jobs.

There was well-organised picketing at all three booking-on locations - Willesden, Gospel Oak and Stratford - and very little scabbing. At least two drivers refused...

So a "leaked document" has revealed LUL's plans to close all ticket offices, replacing them with 20 or so 'travel centres'. Management's "response" to the leak was more notable for what it didn't say - any kind of denial - than what it did.

This particular plan may or may not be what LUL tries to...

'Every Journey Matters' is a series of workshops which selected station staff have been invited to attend. Staff are asked to look at various aspects of LU's service and offer suggestions for improvements.

Staff are then sent out onto the stations to get staff's feedback on some of these potential...

Hot on the heels of George Osborne announcing a 12.5% cut in Transport for London's funding, TfL franchisee London Overground has revealed that it is to scrap conductors.

In fact, the company send a courier to deliver letters to conductors telling them that their jobs are to go. Thanks very much...

We know that management are coming for our jobs. They have stated time and again that modern technology requires more flexibility from their staff. For "more flexibility" read "less staff".

We should be formulating a response to this argument that includes positive ideas for future job roles as...

So, London Underground has created the new post of Director of Operational Change and Upgrades.

Or, to give it a more accurate title, Director of Cutting Jobs and Cutting Corners.

It's a whole department, with its own Director, dedicated to LUL's wet dream of a world-class railway minus staff...

An army wouldn’t go into a war having already accepted defeat, and we shouldn’t go into our battle to defend jobs accepting that some job cuts are inevitable. We’d be doomed to defeat.

Our trade unions must take a stance of ‘no job cuts’ and defend every job. If we accept any job cuts, we simply...

LU management is gearing up to test driverless trains. The test drives could start as early as next month.

After months and years of people speculating, predicting and seeing it coming, it has come. It's time to fight.

First up, we should not be in the business of building our own gallows. Those...

Every Tube worker knows that we have the fight of our lives coming up. The Olympics have provided a brief respite from job cuts, but once they are over, the onslaught will begin.

There is no use waiting for management to announce the job cuts, then throwing our hands up in horror and scrambling out...