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A Northern Line DMT on a driving day had an aggravated SPAD. He got a 12-month suspended sacking - but was returned to work at his own depot!

How can he have any credibility dealing with drivers over SPADs when he has disregarded the rules so flagrantly?

There has been some talk in the RMT about parting company with the TUC, which seems to be based on three main factors:

• A looming dispute over RMT's forthcoming merger with OILC;
• Fear that the new merged T&G/Amicus super-union will dominate the TUC;
• The fact that the TUC is generally crap.

I want to...

P-Way staff at West Kensington got thoroughly fed up with the squalor of the P-Way Cabin. So what did they do? Put up with it? Moan to each other and do nothing? No, they refused to work on the grounds of health and safety and booked on at Griffith House instead.

Then, all of a sudden, after...

SPADs have shot up over the last year, rising 18% from 775 last year to a whopping 951 this year.

The cause? Well, remember Tubeworker reporting on those impractical new timetables on the Northern, Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines? Could it be that if you cram too many trains in, then drivers come up...

On 11th November, a bunch of Silverlink stations will transfer to 'London Rail', and their employment will transfer to LUL. So, of course, we would expect that their pay and conditions in their new job would be exactly the same as that of their LUL workmates.

But not necessarily. LUL management...

Guess what? Women with children aged under eleven are the most discriminated against at work. Yes, really.

'Free Oyster cards' scream the headlines, and of course lots of people don't read on and examine the small print. Which says that no, you can't just walk up to a ticket office to get yours, you have to apply online or phone up.

And because they don't read the small print, they do walk up to a...

Yesterday it seemed that any remaining hope that Diane Abbott MP might support John McDonnell's campaign for the Labour leadership had been extinguished. In the '60 Second Interview' in the 18 April edition of the Metro, she was asked who she supports for Labour leader and replied "Gordon without a...

A group of cleaners and other union activists met on Saturday to take stock of how the cleaners' campaign is going and decide our next steps.

The union's success in stopping 200 redundancies from ISS has been followed by a well attended demonstration outside the mayor's office for a 'Living Wage...

Below is a press release from RMT revealing that the Scottish National Party (SNP) has dropped its previous policy in support of rail renationalisation after ... getting big bucks from private rail owners.

Stagecoach owner Brian souter is also a notorious homophobe, having bankrolled the...