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Staying Shut

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...

Metronet: Solid Strike

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...

Metronet: Strike Stays On

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...

Grief At Greenford

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...

Watergate

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...

Protest to Scrap PPP

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

Luddites?

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!)...

Mealy-Mouthed Mayor

Ken Livingstone's latest newspaper for Londoners carries an article about the Metronet collapse. On first reading, it is a welcome condemnation of PPP and Metronet's management, but a closer read reveals why we can not trust our fat-cat Mayor.

  • The article tells us that the PPP was opposed by Ken...

A Bit Dim

Barking sidings are so dark as to be unsafe. The measure for lighting levels is such that over 30 is OK, between 20 and 30 requires a risk assessment, less than 20 and the location should close until the problem is rectified. The level at Barking sidings? 4.

There was little action from ASLEF, and...

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