Staffing Levels

Resisting management's attempts to cut staffing levels

OT ban pushed as bosses budge on jobs

RMT has suspended an overtime and rest day working plan on LUL stations, due to run from 25 June to 1 July, after bosses budged in talks about jobs cut in a recent rosters and staffing review.

LUL had carried out a programme of 600 job cuts across Tube stations. The company insisted that the jobs...

Trains change plans are attacks on a scale unseen for a generation

London Underground’s "Train Change" plan is an attack on a scale not seen by most drivers in the grade. The last threatened change on this scale was perhaps when guards were ditched or "Company Plan" implemented, both before this writer's time on the job. Other grades have seen such attacks, "Fit...

Management forced to reopen discussion on station job cuts as closures spread

Recent days have seen a spate of station closures, with stations including Marble Arch, Temple, Hyde Park Corner, Lancaster Gate, and several others all having to shut due to staff shortages.

Such closures are an inevitable consequence of LUL's recent reductions of staffing levels across multiple...

Minor delays because of...

...Train cancellations. An almost endless update over the radio now particularly on weekends. On 11 March by the time the night turn controllers had booked on there were apparently 69 ONAs on the Picc. Often the service is running with upto 40 but why the big increase? What do management plan to do...

Station closures continue

As LUL’s job cuts programme continues across stations, we’re seeing the consequences of understaffing as stations continue to close due to lack of staff.

Goodge Street and Mornington Crescent closed on 13 February; on Sunday 12 February, Chancery Lane, Goodge Street, Hyde Park Corner, and Covent...

Detrainment fight is opportunity to build unity

LUL management want to scrap manual detrainment so that they can cut station staff jobs. It would mean rather than a CSA or train op checking each carriage is empty before going into a siding, the train op makes an announcement, flashes the lights, and hopes for the best.

A recent management...

Aslef calls strikes on Bakerloo line

Aslef has called strikes on the Bakerloo line on 4 and 11 February, after drivers voted 99% in favour of industrial action short of strikes, and 95% in favour of strikes, on an 80% turnout. The dispute is over LUL’s plan to remove detrainment duties from Bakerloo line platform, which involve station...

Don't help mask the reality of station job cuts

Rosters with reduced staffing levels have already been imposed on Victoria Centre, Heathrow, and King's Cross cover groups, with the next tranche of impositions due to take place on 29 January.

We know the new rosters mean fewer weekends off and more extreme shifts. Their full "operational" impact...

SRT, Victoria Centre, King's Cross, Heathrow: strike on 25 November!

RMT members in four areas on LUL stations - Victoria Centre (Euston/Green Park), King's Cross, Heathrow (Heathrow Terminals, Hatton Cross, Hounslow West), and the Special Requirements Team (SRT, a department of mobile station staff which provides extra staffing resources for events, projects, etc.)...

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