Disputes

Reports from disputes as they progress, and assessments of them when they are over.

Night Tube delayed: step up, don't let up!

For months, LU has insisted that Night Tube would go ahead on time and on its terms. It has treated our health and work/life balance concerns with contempt. It might as well have published Night Tube rosters and timetables in recent weeks with the accompanying message: "We are the bosses, we are in...

The Crazy World of Stevie G

We've been having a good chuckle here at Tubeworker HQ at this latest wheeze from LU Chief Operating Officer Steve Griffiths (he of "I don't care what you think about health and safety" fame - see here).

A BBC article on our latest strike, which quotes Steve blustering in disbelief that a union...

Ready, Set, Strike!

RMT, TSSA, and Unite have named more strikes, on 25-26 and 27-28 August.

Naming more strikes hot on the heels of our last one maintains momentum, and with the OT ban still biting, the pressure on management is mounting. It's excellent that we're escalating to 48 hours, and spreading the strikes...

#TubeStrike: We Will Fight Until We Win!

Once again, we've demonstrated the integral role our labour plays in the day-to-day functioning of London by shutting down the Tube completely. Our strike is rock solid.

There are lively, well-supported picket lines still ongoing outside depots and stations across London, bringing together members...

Full Steam Ahead! All Out On 5-6 August!

With the company's latest joke offer (see here for our take) decisively rejected by all four unions, it's full steam ahead for the 5-6 August strike.

Our immediate job is to make the strike as solid as possible and organise lively, well-supported picket lines across the combine. But we need to have...

Thanks, But No Thanks

So, another week of ACAS talks has concluded, and LU has put down another "final" offer.

Needle-in-haystack hunters could point to the offer of a £200-per-night-shift payment for T/Ops, or the promise of 28 days' notice of rest days in proposed "cover weeks" for station staff, as evidence of...

Night Of The Living NIRMs

All sorts of troubling reports are reaching Tubeworker HQ about the depths to which the company is sinking to keep things afloat as our industrial action continues and our overtime ban bites.

One correspondent writes: "During the 8-9 July strike, it's rumoured that one of the 'all singing, all...

LU locks out drivers for upholding safety standards

A cornered animal can be dangerous. Today, under pressure from our overtime ban, still reeling from our 8-9 July strike and in a palpable panic about our next one, LU lashed out.

Seven District Line drivers were sent home without pay for exercising their legal right (duty, in fact!) to uphold...

LU threatens to dock drivers' pay for upholding safety standards

Aslef and RMT's additional industrial action short of strikes, named in response to LU's safety breaches (see here) has clearly got the company panicked.

The unions rightly declared that no member should take a train into service if it hadn't been properly prepped by properly licensed staff. A 24...

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