Late last night, RMT suspended its strike on Metronet, claiming 'progress' in talks with management. Next week's 3-day strike remains on and no deal has yet been signed.
Some progress does appear to have been made:
Comments from striking Metronet workers about action below. Add yours via the comments box ...
LUL staff are used to management playing fast and loose with safety rules during strikes. Now it seems that Metronet's management have caught on too.
Rumours reach us of a patrol going out on the District line during the strike - probably made up of the tiny handful of scabs they could muster from...
From the start of the strike on Monday, LUL management accepted that they could not possibly run a safe service with all the engineering workers unavailable! But they still harboured ambitions to get services up and running if they could find a way. But firm resolve from other grades put paid to...
RMT's strike on failed privateer Metronet went ahead today, was solid, and caused the majority of London Underground lines to close down. LUL workers were ready and willing to refuse to work on safety grounds, but it seems that London Underground itself woke up to the fact that it is not safe to run...
Management seem to be clinging to a desperate hope that the Metronet strike will be called off. Metronet bosses have sent round a circular stating that they expect it to be called off, and apparently LUL station staff have been told to take down the strike posters.
As we write, though, they are...
LUL's savage ticket office cuts will even wipe out some of the jobs they created under the stations 35-hour week! Staff who transferred to a location they had been waiting for will now be forced out, and staff who were displaced into them will be displaced out again!
One example is Greenford group...
Would you take a drink out of this?! Well, management seem to expect Bakerloo drivers to. Who knows what germs lurk within the water dispenser in the notorious Goldfish Bowl (the drivers' step-back room on the platform at the Elephant)?! There is a horrible stink, and the fridge is appalling too...
Scrap the PPP, bring maintenance in-house
Lobby the Department for Transport
Tuesday 4th September 11.30 – 13.00
Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DR (nearest Tube: Westminster or St James Park)
Bring banners & flags
Called by RMT
Management would have you believe that ticket offices have to be closed because of the effects of new technology, implying that those of us who oppose the cuts are some kind of Luddites.
Here at Tubeworker, we are not against new technology (we'd hardly be running this blog if we were, after all!)...
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