Bakerloo line staff fight lone working

Submitted by Anon on 28 June, 2007 - 1:05

Management on the London Underground are attempting to force lone working by detrainment staff at two Bakerloo line stations. Detrainment staff, who check that trains are empty of passengers at the end of their route, currently work in groups of at least two in order to ensure their and passengers’ safety – and yet, at Harrow & Wealdstone and Willesden Junction stations, in an area where violent crime is 40% above the national average, security is being cut back.

Detrainment work at these stations is suitable for medically restricted staff who cannot work at other locations – but it is these vulnerable staff who are now to be left alone. The service is being cut back in spite of a fatality at the sidings at Liverpool Street under the previous shoddy regimen, to the detriment of workers and the people who use the Tube.

Drivers will be expected to help to deal with detrainment, and so are being balloted by the RMT, in conjunction with detrainment staff and station reserve staff on North Group stations, on proposals for industrial action. ASLEF is vacillating, but its members too are under fire. For a fight against the implementation of lone working, workers must vote “yes” to action.

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