Pay&Conditions/Night Tube 2015

Ready, Set, Strike!

RMT, TSSA, and Unite have named more strikes, on 25-26 and 27-28 August.

Naming more strikes hot on the heels of our last one maintains momentum, and with the OT ban still biting, the pressure on management is mounting. It's excellent that we're escalating to 48 hours, and spreading the strikes...

#TubeStrike: We Will Fight Until We Win!

Once again, we've demonstrated the integral role our labour plays in the day-to-day functioning of London by shutting down the Tube completely. Our strike is rock solid.

There are lively, well-supported picket lines still ongoing outside depots and stations across London, bringing together members...

Full Steam Ahead! All Out On 5-6 August!

With the company's latest joke offer (see here for our take) decisively rejected by all four unions, it's full steam ahead for the 5-6 August strike.

Our immediate job is to make the strike as solid as possible and organise lively, well-supported picket lines across the combine. But we need to have...

Thanks, But No Thanks

So, another week of ACAS talks has concluded, and LU has put down another "final" offer.

Needle-in-haystack hunters could point to the offer of a £200-per-night-shift payment for T/Ops, or the promise of 28 days' notice of rest days in proposed "cover weeks" for station staff, as evidence of...

Night Of The Living NIRMs

All sorts of troubling reports are reaching Tubeworker HQ about the depths to which the company is sinking to keep things afloat as our industrial action continues and our overtime ban bites.

One correspondent writes: "During the 8-9 July strike, it's rumoured that one of the 'all singing, all...

LU locks out drivers for upholding safety standards

A cornered animal can be dangerous. Today, under pressure from our overtime ban, still reeling from our 8-9 July strike and in a palpable panic about our next one, LU lashed out.

Seven District Line drivers were sent home without pay for exercising their legal right (duty, in fact!) to uphold...

LU threatens to dock drivers' pay for upholding safety standards

Aslef and RMT's additional industrial action short of strikes, named in response to LU's safety breaches (see here) has clearly got the company panicked.

The unions rightly declared that no member should take a train into service if it hadn't been properly prepped by properly licensed staff. A 24...

About That Offer, Steve...

A Tubeworker reader took a closer look at the "final" pay offer LU put on the table before our 8-9 July strike (you remember, the one they presented in the afternoon but said they'd withdraw unless the unions accepted it by 18:30). It made even worse reading on closer inspection than it did at first...

LU cuts corners on safety as overtime ban bites

The extent of LU's reliance on overtime to keep the Tube running is being revealed, as our overtime ban begins to cause serious problems.

Old Street recently became the latest station to close for part of the day due to staff shortages. Tubeworker hears that several other major stations have only...

Strike Two!

ASLEF has called another 24-hour strike for 5-6 August. Word is that this was agreed between all four unions, and the others will announce shortly.

It is welcome news that further strike action has been declared. If our officials had gone back to negotiations without named action on the horizon...

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