Service control

Issues and struggles for London Underground Service Control

W&C Service Controllers Strike Back

Waterloo and City line service controllers will strike for 48 hours next week in their fight to have their job uprated.

W&C controllers are paid less than every other service controller on the job - they have a grade all to themselves so that the company can pay them five grand less than others...

Strike Threat Forces Management to Talk Pay Rise

For nearly two years, Waterloo & City line service control staff have been refusing overtime in pursuit of their entirely justified claim for higher pay to reflect the complexity of their work. Nothing doing. Management didn't care.

So they stepped it up. Balloted for strike action. Got a 100% Yes...

Random Testing

Neasden signals flashed like Xmas lights for eight months, until an RMT industrial action threat forced LU and Thales to respond.

But new software didn't fix it. Signallers are still clearing one route only for another signal to turn to danger - potentially causing drivers to SPAD.

Thales only...

Neasden Depot: Going Up the Wrong Road

Since Thales installed new software last August, there have been signalling irregularities at Neasden Met depot. You clear one road, and the system clears another one instead!

This has meant that service control can not use four of the depot roads for long routes, and have to set routes bit by bit...

Service Control Win!

Service control workers have won some important demands for job security. Management intended to use the opening of the new Hammersmith Service Control Centre in 2015 as a pretext to keep the staff they wanted and ditch those they did not, and to reshape the service control function in a way that...

Service Control: A Fighting Force!

LU RMT Service Control workers are urging ‘Vote Yes!’ in the current ballot for strike action.

The issues in dispute include the new Hammersmith Service Control Centre, which will cut up to 200 jobs, without guaranteed protected earnings. Tubeworker is pleased we’re taking action although the...

DMTs to be Trained in Control Rooms

Trains are trains, and service control is service control, you'd think. But LUL management have other ideas, and are planning to train DMTs to operate service control kit, not even pausing to address union objections.

Could this be management's latest ruse to cut jobs by having other grades...

Defend Tony Crump!

LUL has summarily dismissed Earls Court signaller Tony Crump, for a mistake at work.

Until quite recently, if you made a mistake at work, even a serious one, you could expect a punishment, retraining and/or maybe an alternative job. But the current London Underground management regime simply boots...

Wot No Controller?

The Waterloo and City line may be a little short, but it still needs controlling like any other line. So how is it that the people who do the job are 'mere' signal operators, paid less than they should be and expected to do work that they shouldn't.

It is said that if something waddles like a duck...

Service Control: Fight These 'Restructuring' Attacks

Service control staff were barely out of one naff 'restructuring' than we faced another. This time, it is all about 'upgrading' to super new control centres. This may sound like the way forward for the future of service control - the problem is the way that management are treating workers in the...

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