Special Requirements Team

KX7 - Waste of Time?

Readers will recall that LUL management got themselves in a right fluster about seven Kings Cross SAMFs who walked out of the ticket office for 40 minutes in protest at the SRT being used to cover a rostered duty.

Note that time: 40 minutes. Management are now dragging each and every one of...

No staff for Christmas shoppers!

On the Saturday that Oxford Street was pedestrianised for Christmas shoppers - one of the busiest days of the year - there were only two CSAs working at Tottenham Court Road between 5am and 5pm! This made for a very stressful day for the staff on duty. Problem: the station is staffed to the bare...

LUL Disciplines Kings Cross 7

LUL is pursuing its disciplinary action against the 'Kings Cross 7', SAMFs who quite rightly walked out of the ticket office in protest against the deployment of an SRT Supervisor to cover a duty, in breach of the Framework Agreement.

Management are obviously quite appalled by the very idea...

Not a good start for the SRT

This is the first week of the SRT working on stations. Tubeworker has spotted a few problems..........

The SRT seem to be causing resentment wherever they go. People feel they are 'stealing overtime'. While tubeworker is not a fan of overtime - it usually means management are not covering...

Kings Cross Staff Walk Out Against Management Abuses

Yesterday morning, ticket office staff at Kings Cross walked out when management once again broke their own rules by using a member of the Special Requirements Team (SRT) to cover a duty. The whole point of the SRT is that it provides additional staff tomeet special requirements; it must not cover...

Wood Lane Rosters Joke

LUL intends to open the new Wood Lane station next month, but seems to have overlooked staffing it properly.

Its planned rosters - which union reps reject - do not provide enough staff for what is going to be a very busy station. To add insult to injury, the rosters also rely on rostered Edgware...

SRT: Are You Familiar?

The Special Requirements Team is now being familiarised in zone one stations. They are being shown around three or four stations in a day for a period before they start work.

They could find themselves working at stations where they were familiarised three months ago. 'Familiarisation' seems to be...

SRT: Step Forward, Please

Management appear to be struggling to fill the jobs in their much-vaunted Special Requirements Team (SRT).

Tubeworker is not hugely surprised. A few people's idea of a perfect job might involve travelling over a wide distance in your own time, never getting to settle at one work location, and...

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