New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online!
The latest edition of our bulletin is now online.
Issues for Tube cleaners, and unionisation efforts
The latest edition of our bulletin is now online.
Cleaners, catering and security staff, track protection workers, and others are employed by private companies rather than by LUL or TfL directly. Contracting out work to private companies is known as “outsourcing”. Invariably, outsourced workers have worse terms and conditions, and less secure work...
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Thousands of workers across London Underground and TfL are outsourced, meaning they are not employed directly by LUL or TfL but by private contractors. The biggest outsourced contract is cleaning, with...
The latest edition of our bulletin, collating content from our blog, is now online. Click here to download the PDF.
This edition reviews the recent developments in the LUL pay dispute, and discusses the implications for union organisation on the job. Plus, an update on the ABM cleaners' ballot, and...
RMT has suspended an industrial action ballot of ABM cleaner members on LUL, after the company agreed to a review of the controversial "Project Lean", which has seen many cleaners face increased workloads.
ABM has now committed to reviewing the workload of any cleaner who was forced to take on...
The final edition of Tubeworker bulletin of 2023 is now online.
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This edition looks forwards to strike over LUL pay in January, and encourages all readers to support ABM cleaners' industrial action ballot.
Everyone on LU, directly-employed or outsourced, is part of a collective. We all contribute our labour to ensure the system can run. If any group of workers face unsafe or exploitative conditions, that’s a problem for all of us.
Station staff, drivers, train maintainers, engineers and office...
Being a cleaner is one of the most difficult and frequently unpleasant jobs on the Tube, as well as one of the lowest paid.
So it’s always nice to get some reward and recognition, especially at this time of year. So you can imagine the joy felt by ABM staff across the combine upon discovering the delivery of small cellophane bags containing seven — yes, seven — Quality Street chocolates in various mess rooms.
From 19 December, RMT will ballot ABM cleaners on the LUL contract for industrial action.
RMT cleaner reps are working hard to prepare for an upcoming industrial action ballot.
Cleaning contractor ABM has displaced dozens of cleaners via its "Project Lean" restructure, and is yet to respond to an RMT pay claim demanding a pay rise and company sick pay. Meanwhile, the value of cleaners'...
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