Staffing Levels

RMT has done us a service by again leaking management plans that will lead to job cuts.

This time, our bosses' 'think tanks' (think: tanks which great big guns on them) have been working on the issue of minimum numbers. They appear to be horrified that they have documents committing them to...

The East London Line is due to reopen soon, newly-privatised and rebranded as London Overground.

This will self-evidently lead to an increase in passengers going through Whitechapel station, both interchanging between the two lines and getting on or off at Whitechapel for a journey to or from one...

Drivers are feeling the effects of the woeful 2009 Agreement as management come after jobs.

At Barking, 8 drivers have been forced off the roster and into the pool, including some who have been on the roster for years. They now find themselves having to work out of Acton Town sometimes several...

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With engineering work on the Northern line this weekend, management's freeze on stations vacancies is seeing some chickens coming fluttering home to roost.

Left short-handed at Golders Green, with the Special Requirements Team unavailable, managers seem to think that they can move staff from other...

Management are trying to cut minimum staffing numbers at Oxford Circus station - and you can bet that if they are trying it on there, they will try it on elsewhere too. Your station could be next!

Management have scrutinised staffing levels at OXO and come to the alarming conclusion that the...

Readers may have had the delight of perusing management's half-arsed effort to deny - or at least play down, since it wasn't actually a denial - RMT's leak of their job-cutting plans.

You may have noticed that the company claims to have a commitment to ensure that stations are staffed "during the...

London Underground management are again rattling their sabres about potentially displacing "over-establishment" station staff.

What a rank cheek. Not only is it irrational to displace anyone while at the same time freezing vacancies, but the over-establishment "problem" is a problem of LUL...

A new agreement has appeared - the Trains Functional 2009 agreement. This new policy will see a reduction of spares and pool coverage, with drivers' posts lost from the establishment in some depots.

One sick aspect to this is that apparently one of management's pretexts is that improved attendance...

Staff on Oxford Circus group have been standing up together for staffing levels.

Management stopped covering duties on overtime, expecting staff to make do with fewer numbers and work extra hard to compensate. They began to only authorise overtime for dead earlies and dead lates, which could close...