The press has recently reported TfL’s plan to track all wi-fi enabled devices through the Tube system, to measure passenger flows.
This technology could lead to important data gathering, which improves safety and staff deployment. But there’s also a risk it could be used nefariously, either for...
RMT drivers on the Victoria Line look as though they may soon join their Central Line comrades in balloting for industrial action.
The issues are similar, focusing on management throwing their weight around in the depot. RMT has been arranging meetings of the relevant reps, but it’s crucial that...
Central Line drivers in RMT recently returned a thumping majority for new strikes in a long-running dispute against bullying bosses. Click here for our report from the time.
So far, no action has been called. It's been over a month. Many drivers are starting to ask why. The dispute hasn’t been...
LU has now made a revised offer on pay and conditions, offering RPI + 0.1% this year, and RPI + 0.2% next year. There has been no movement on any union demand: for a reduced working week, for a flat-rate minimum for lower-paid staff, and more.
This offer needs to be completely rejected, and a...
It appears that ABM is mounting a serious assault on jobs, with reports flooding in from across LU of positions being slashed.
Numerous stations with three or more cleaners on a shift are losing at least one position, with any agency cleaners first in the firing line. Many are being told they...
You can almost hear the grinding of gritted teeth...
We reported a couple of months back on LU's scandalous decision to hand Sophie Kyei-Donkoh, a Piccadilly Circus CSA, a 52-week warning for the "crime" of being abused by a member of the public (who was, in fact, a serial vexatious complainer).
Sophie's colleagues, through their local reps and RMT...
Station staff in sefveral locations have been shocked to find out that the number of night cleaners on their station has been cut, without any notice or discussion.
And the cleaners involved have been told - often verbally, at just one day's notice - that there is no more work for them.
Under...
Fleet workers have begun their industrial action to defeat extended train prep, by refusing to deliver or participate in training for work outside substantive roles. This action is vital to stop LU training up a scab workforce to cover train prep work while fleet staff are on strike.
Strikes...
Great news this week as Transport for London has backed down on plans to close London Overground ticket offices.
This follows an active campaign by RMT, and by local Labour Party branches in the areas affected. Reps and activists handed out thousands of leaflets, travelled round the various...
Tubeworker thinks that outside of a genuine emergency no one needs their manager contacting them outside of work. The survey being conducted by Aslef as to whether managers can call us to offer duties we didn't request has a very easy answer. NO!
Duties should not be given out on the basis of who...
Network Rail has provided agency workers to work as suicide-prevention security staff on stations at the north end of the Bakerloo Line for some time.
Previously, workers were hired via an agency called SES, and paid around £10 an hour. But a new agency, Servo, has recently taken over the...
Fleet maintainers have voted overwhelming for industrial action against LUL management's plan to cut the frequency of train preparation. A combination of strength of feeling about the issue and a solid organising effort by RMT activists saw nearly two-thirds of ballot papers returned, nearly ninety...
London Underground has offered our unions a one-year, 2.5% pay increase... as long as our unions agree to drop the entirety of our demands.
What is there to say about this offer other than... well, to avoid using inappropriate language, let's just say, "no thanks".
The unions' pay claims...
A recent Freedom of Information request lodged by the RMT revealed that Tube stations were left unstaffed for a cumulative total of 7,500 hours across the whole network in 2018, the equivalent of 312 days.
LU's now infamous claim that "all stations will be staffed, from first to last trains" lies...
As part of the latest phase of the TfL/LUL "Transformation" programme, management has announced sweeping job cuts in Track Access Control, Power Control, Service Control, LUCC, Skills Development, Waste, Pumps, Stations Building & Civils, and Signals Incidents.
Workers who play a vital role in...
Forced to re-ballot due to the stipulations of the anti-union laws, RMT drivers on the Central Line have smashed the thresholds required by those laws and delivered another massive vote for strikes. West Ruislip depot led the way in percentage terms, with 96% of drivers voting for strikes on a 96%...
London Underground has announced a new 'buddy system' if we're lone working on stations.
Every two hours, you're supposed to phone your mate at the next station to check they're alright.
But what use is a phone call two hours after you've been assaulted?
The buddy system has previously...
Around International Women's Day, 8th March, LUL's intranet and company magazine, On the Move, featured women who are 'bucking the trend' by working in male-dominated roles - technical officer, service control manager, track maintenance.
But why are women still a minority in LUL when we are 51%...
Sophie Kyei-Donkoh, a CSA at Piccadilly Circus, was abused by an aggressive passenger, who makes serial vexatious complaints against staff. How did the company support her? With a 52-week disciplinary warning!
RMT members at Sophie’s station are rightly up in arms about this travesty. Prior to...
Station staff at Heathrow are gearing up to defend Harvinder Billing, a colleague sacked after two ticket office discrepancies.
Anyone who works in a ticket office knows how unreliable LU’s machines can be. We can’t stand by and watch our colleagues sacked for human error on an unreliable system...
Station staff on the District East group, and drivers at Upminster and Barking depots on the District and Hammersmith and City Lines, are planning ballots for industrial action to protest lone working.
A recent spate of antisocial behaviour and violence, including stabbings, in the area sparked...
RMT's ballot for strikes and action short of strikes to defend train preparation schedules closes on 2 April. Tubeworker urges all LU Fleet workers to vote yes/yes.
The union must urgently look to spread the dispute if fleet-only action proves insufficient to force management to back down.
Travel Safe Officers employed by the STM Agency on the London Overground (Arriva Rail London) contract will strike on 2 April.
The workers, who do platform and on-train work for London Overground, face a pay freeze, despite already being low-paid.
RMT will demonstrate outside Arriva Rail...
Security guards and reception workers at LUL and TfL buildings are getting organised. Interserve, the outsourced contractor which employs them, is in financial chaos, and was recently bought out of administration by its own lenders.
This means these workers, who already face a raft of workplace...
MTR - which has the contract to run Crossrail - has come a-cropper in Hong Kong, as its trial of new signalling systems came off the rails.
Two subway tains collided between Central and Admiralty stations during an early morning test run on Monday before start of traffic. Both drivers were taken...
Workers on the cable car service across the Thames have won pay rises of between 14.35% and 22.35% - by getting unionised.
In this relatively new workforce, a few staff had joined RMT. But the campaign stepped up a gear in October last year with the election of a new RMT rep. The union negotiated...
55 Broadway is to be 'disposed of' according to an article on the TfL intranet. That is crass language for the privatisation of such an iconic LU building; funded by taxes or passenger fares.
This happening as a result of a political choice to end tube subsidies, made by the Tory party as they...
Apparently, LUL pays £1,300 a go for a Track Retrieval Device.
That might sound quite reasonable if it were actually a 'device' in the popular understanding of the word. But it is a stick with a sticky pad on the end. Hence its usual moniker among station staff - the 'sticky stick'.
Private...
Management's plan to cut the frequency of train preparation from every 24 hours to every 96 hours will be disastrous for jobs, for safety, and for reliability.
Driven solely by penny-pinching, the cut - if it goes ahead - will see trains going into passenger service which have not been check for...
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