Northern line

Spurious OPO Alarms

The tragic death of a Northern line driver highlights the important problem of spurious OPO alarms.

The OPO alarm is a crucial warning to the controller that something may have happened to a driver, but Northern line controllers receive so many spurious alarms that they are inevitably taken less...

Looking Good?

At Morden depot, management have come up with another cracking scheme to boost the morale of the workers. Now when you book on, you can look (well, you can hardly avoid looking) at yourself in a mirror, adorned with the words 'Looking Good'. No doubt, management imagine the professional driver...

Radio Gaga

Northern Line management are proposing a change, to allow Line Controllers to authorise drivers to apply the rule over the radio. There are two big reasons why we should oppose this:

1. Is the radio actually secure?

2. It represents a change to the Rule Book as Line Controllers do not currently...

Gis A Job

The escalator refurbishment at Tottenham Court Road very nearly didn't go ahead, because Reed Recruitment - who now take care of TfL recruitment - failed to recruit enough staff.

Station staff have been pulled from other stations to cover the extra work. It is bad enough that a separate contractor...

Pestered in the Privy

LUL prides itself on its 'Dignity at Work' policy promising you decent toilet facilities - you know, regularly cleaned, enough bog roll, etc.

It's a shame that this policy doesn't seem to extend to the right to relieve yourself free from being nagged about SPADs. Yes, at Morden depot, sit down for...

Working Late

Drivers' duties for the new Northern Line timetable are rubbish. There are a significant number of duties which have 4hrs15 on one half, or very close to it - which given the regularity with which the Northern Line runs late, means that people doing these duties will almost inevitably go over hours...

Gutter Press

The Evening Standard has run an extraordinary campaign of persecution against sacked Northern line driver Robert Rankin. They even sent reporters to his house, and when they failed to heed his requests to leave and he allegedly tried to persuade them with a bucket of water, they reckoned that...

BTP: Always there when you (don't) need them

Station staff discovered on the strike days that the BTP turn up much more promptly to a picket line than they do to an assault on staff. At least some of them have the good grace to look embarrassed when they turn up just because LUL management told their bosses to tell them to.

Apparently, the...

Another Rank-and-File Bulletin

We are pleased to tell you that Tubeworker is not the only "unofficial", rank-and-file publication backing the strikes and keeping the workforce informed.

Activists on the Kennington/Oval group have produced 'frontline', which has a particularly good line in belittling scabs, exposing safety...

Northern Line: Unity and Action Protects Safety

The last few weeks’ events on the Northern line have shown three important things: PPP is a safety disaster; it is Tube workers, not management, who care about safety; and that if we stand firm, we can win.

PPP = Disaster for Safety

PPP was supposed to deliver improvements and an effective...

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