Transport for London

Free public transport? Why not?!

It’s a fairly mainstream view in Britain that healthcare, as a vital public service we all rely on, should be socially provided, for free, and funded by taxation.

Cable car workers plan strikes

Maintenance workers on the TfL cable car - known as the "IFS Cloud Cable Car" due to its current sponsor - plan strikes from 7-10 April.

26 out of 27 RMT members working for the companies which provide maintenance voted for strikes to win improved pay and conditions. The threat of action has...

TfL workers: vote yes for action on pay!

RMT members at Transport for London are balloting for industrial action to win a decent settlement on pay and conditions. The ballot opens on 31 January, and runs until 21 February. Tubeworker encourages all readers at TfL to vote yes!

(As there’s sometimes some confusion about this, and especially...

No complacency as pension deadline pushed back...

TfL announced that the deadline for the next phase of the pension reform process has been pushed back to 28 February.

This is the phase in which TfL has to pick a preferred option for reform, before going on to publish an implementation plan for the reform. Although “no change” is technically still...

Unite at TfL/LUL and RMT on London Overground to join 3 November strike

Unite members across TfL will join the strike on 3 November. Unite's action focuses on defence of the pension scheme, and will involve workers at Victoria Coach Station, Surface Operations, Network Management Control Centre, River Boat Services, Dial-a-Ride, CPOS, and Croydon Trams engineering and...

Unite members reject TfL pay offer

Unite members working for TfL have rejected the company's insulting pay offer, by 92 per cent to eight per cent. RMT members had also previously rejected the offer. Unite is demanding an 8.4 per cent increase for 2022, and plans to move to a new industrial action ballot.

Unite's members at TfL work...

Wot, no ballot?

At a joint rally in defence of public transport in London with other TfL unions on 31 August, a TSSA official announced from the rostrum that they were preparing to ballot across TfL and LUL, over attacks on the pension scheme and other issues.

Great, and long overdue. TSSA has played a shabby role...

As TfL board debates our future... demonstrate 30 August!

The Transport for London board will meet on Tuesday 30 August to discuss whether to accept the £3.6 billion funding settlement from the Department for Transport.

Although the contents of the proposed settlement will, if accepted, have a profound impact on our working lives, and on the services we...

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