Aslef drivers across LU have voted by a thumping 97.3% majority for industrial action to protect terms and conditions. The union is yet to name any action, but it's a resounding vote that will send a clear message to the bosses.
With LU's financial future in doubt, the bosses have our terms and...
Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the collapse of its fare revenue, and discussions with the Department for Transport about future funding models, Transport for London has published a "Financial Sustainability Plan".
The strongest words it can muster about its own future funding is a proposal...
The "Independent Review" into transport funding commissioned by the Mayor and the TfL Board has now been published. Remember, this was the "independent" alternative to the KPMG-led review commissioned by the Department for Transport, which - although we can't know for sure, as it hasn't been made...
The government has agreed a six-month, £1.8 billion funding bailout for TfL, after a period of intense negotiations that saw deadlines extend and talks go down to the wire.
The package is being widely reported as a "win for Sadiq Khan", as the deal does not include many of the concessions the...
Talks between TfL and the government about a further funding bailout are ongoing, with discussions being extend past the 17 October deadline for the expiry of the previous package.
Tory attack lines blame Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan for "bankrupting" TfL. This is a blatant lie. TfL's funding crisis...
The audit and review of TfL's governance and finance, ordered by the Department for Transport (DfT) as part of the funding bailout provided in June, and led by accountancy firm KPMG, was due to make its initial report at the end of August.
As Tubeworker reported, language in the audit's terms of...
The terms of reference announced by the government for the review of TfL's governance and finance make the direction of travel clear: cuts and privatisation.
References to "alternative operating models" and alternative "structures and governance" are coded language for taking TfL out of local...
The main four unions organising across Transport for London - RMT, Aslef, TSSA, and Unite - held a joint rally against cuts, via Zoom, on 15 July.
Officials from all unions spoke in favour of industrial action to resist cuts, albeit with varying degrees of emphasis and enthusiasm. Exactly how to...
Driverless trains, every union-hating Tory's favourite imagined panacea, are back in the news again.
Weeks after LU made a commitment to unions that the new stock on the Piccadilly Line, the next line to be refurbished, would have drivers' cabs fitted, the Prime Minister suggested in an interview...
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