Tube unions & politics

A report has revealed a £900 million surplus in TfL’s budget. Labour London Assembly members have said that this money could have been used to reduce fares and reduce living costs in the capital.

Boris says that planned Tube upgrades will swallow any surplus.

But this shows that TfL bosses’...

Mike Brown has threatened drivers’ job security for striking on Boxing Day. This confirms that LU intends to use driverless trains as a stick to beat workers with; it’s nothing to do with improving service.

While the press called drivers greedy. But the truth is more complex. In 1992, LU...

The Mayor and TfL Board are cutting £1.5 million from the London Transport Museum.
TfL wants to cut jobs and cut workers' pay to the appalling museum industry average.

Staff, TSSA and RMT will demonstrate outside City Hall, at 9am on Wednesday 12th December.

Museum staff are boosting LU's...

LU has announced there will be no driverless trains on LU until the '2020s' following 'safety and passenger concerns'.

What an easy victory! All RMT and ASLEF needed to do was to put on a ballot for industrial action to refuse to test the trains (testing was due to start this month) and LU pulled...

Have too many strikes lead to the threat of driverless trains?

Boris says he wants driverless trains to crush our ability to strike.

Have we brought this on ourselves by past militancy?

No!

We have not provoked this attack. Responsibility lies with this politically-motivated Mayor, who...

On Friday 3rd, Boris said: "Across all our roads and rails hundreds of workers are on standby to ensure that, should we receive a mega deposit of snow, we are in a position to keep the capital moving

"With more than 100,000 tonnes of salt and an army of gritters, de-icers and specially adapted...

Around 3000 people set up the 'Occupy London' camp outside St Pauls Cathedral on Saturday 15th October, part of an international day of action in support of the month-long ‘Occupy Wall Street’ camp.

With the slogan, ‘We are the 99%!’ they speak for the majority hard-hit and angry that...

Tube workers played our part in opposing the English Defence League's provocative visit to East London yesterday.

It seems that originally, LU and the police had a plan to put on special train(s) from Hainault to Liverpool Street to bring the EDL to their demo. RMT reps objected, and told LU that...

In just over a week, TfL's commemorative 'Wills and Kate' Oyster cards will go on sale. At £5 a pop, with a minimum £5 top-up, TfL hopes to make at least £3.75 million out of suckers for the Royal Wedding.

As if it wasn't bad enough that every newspaper you open is plastered with images of the...

To a room packed with banking executives, Boris Johnson openly declared he intends to introduce driverless trains to break the power of the unions.

What a scene. The rich and powerful, with Johnson as their political representative, cheering at the thought of stripping working class peoples of...