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New edition of Tubeworker bulletin now online!

The final edition of Tubeworker bulletin of 2023 is now online.

Click here to read the bulletin.

This edition looks forwards to strike over LUL pay in January, and encourages all readers to support ABM cleaners' industrial action ballot.

Why directly-employed staff must help the cleaners' fight

Everyone on LU, directly-employed or outsourced, is part of a collective. We all contribute our labour to ensure the system can run. If any group of workers face unsafe or exploitative conditions, that’s a problem for all of us.

Station staff, drivers, train maintainers, engineers and office...

Track workers hospitalised by Isle of Wight collision

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is to carry out yet another investigation into yet another incident where track workers have been injured.

This one happened on the Isle of Wight in the small hours on 22 November, when a road-rail vehicle (RRV) collided with a hand trolley between...

Tories scrap central online ticket-selling service

Remember the Tory government trumpeting its Great British Railways (GBR) gimmick as a move to return coherence to the national railway? And remember that one of the ways that it was going to do that was by running a centralised online ticket-selling service?

Well, guess what? It has decided not to...

Inequality Street

Being a cleaner is one of the most difficult and frequently unpleasant jobs on the Tube, as well as one of the lowest paid.

So it’s always nice to get some reward and recognition, especially at this time of year. So you can imagine the joy felt by ABM staff across the combine upon discovering the delivery of small cellophane bags containing seven — yes, seven — Quality Street chocolates in various mess rooms.

Don't fall for divide-and-rule on pay

Senior LUL manager Nick Dent has written to Aslef thanking them for accepting the company's 5% pay offer (i.e., a pay cut). Scandalously, the letter also says that, unless the three other unions have accepted the cut by 31 December, LUL will being the process of imposing it.

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