Central line

RMT detrainment re-ballot: vote yes to renew mandate

RMT is re-balloting driver members on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, and Victoria lines to renew an industrial action mandate in the dispute over the imposition of "flash-and-dash", the unsafe detrainment method whereby drivers are expected to simply flash in-car...

Ballot successful on detrainment fight

The reballot on Bakerloo, District, Central, Hammersmith and City, Victoria and Jubilee lines was successful. Drivers will continue to check their trains before taking them into depots or sidings.

As Tubeworker has said previously, ”While there is a specific safety implication for drivers arising...

Detrainment dispute: renew the mandate, link the fights!

RMT is re-balloting train operator members on the Bakerloo, District, Central, Hammersmith and City, and Jubilee lines to renew the mandate for industrial action in the dispute over the removal of detrainment duties on stations.

Ballot papers go out on 27 July, and the ballot closes on 17 August. T...

Detrainment dispute heats up as drivers vote for action

LUL drivers' fight against the removal of detrainment duties, and the imposition of the "flash-and-dash" system for detraining, is heating up. Both RMT and Aslef have successfully achieved industrial action mandates.

RMT balloted all affected lines together, while Aslef balloted on a line-by-line...

Drivers: vote yes for strikes to defend detrainment duties

RMT is balloting driver members on the Bakerloo, Central, District, Hammersmith and City, and Jubilee lines for strikes to resist the removal of detrainment duties at terminating stations.

We've covered this issue extensively - see some of our previous coverage here and here.

Action is absolutely...

Return to "Flash and Dash" risks jobs and safety

In the same month the Women’s Night Safety Charter was publicised in TfL's in-house magazine On the Move, London Underground detailed plans to remove manual detrainment, in favour of that old favourite "flash and dash".

"Flash and dash" is the process where the train operator will only have to...

Customer Misinformation

Yesterday, the company was telling passengers that Chancery Lane station was closed for engineeering works. It wasn't - it was closed because there were not enough station staff.

And it told the public that the Central Line had massive delays because of train cancellations. But why were there train...

OT ban bites on day one!

We're less than 24 hours in to RMT's overtime ban on stations, and it's already beginning to bite. We knew it had LU rattled, as they've been broadcasting PAs informing passengers about "industrial action between 3 June and 10 July", the period of the ban, and telling them to expect station closures...

The Night Tube dispute still matters

RMT is re-balloting drivers as part of the dispute over enforced night working. That dispute is as important today as it was when the 2016 agreement was first ripped up, back in 2021.

When the deal between ASLEF and London Underground, which abolished the part-time Night Tube driver grade and...

This Station is Closed ...

Chancery Lane station seems to be getting a dose of nostalgia, longing for the days when it used to close every Sunday - only this time (yesterday, Sunday 25 April), it was not because it is supposed to, but because of lack of staff. Wanstead also closed for lack of staff. And there were others too...

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