Staffing Levels

Management's preparations for job cuts are seeing station duties uncovered left, right and centre. Staff are run off our feet, doing our own job and someone's else's, unable to provide all the services cutsomers need, unsafe and overworked.

Here are just a few examples:

• Knightsbridge, on a day when...

RMT members have received a letter from the union promising that we will receive a ballot paper 'shortly'. About time too!

While the union has taken literally months preparing this ballot, LU management have ploughed full steam ahead with their job cuts. They are freezing vacancies, stopping...

Serco Docklands has been fined nearly half a million quid after one of its trains killed a man who had strayed onto the track.

Another passenger alerted the police, who asked the control room to check, but they could not spot anyone on track. It was only when they spotted a copper on the...

Management have tried plenty of ways to get us to collaborate in the abolition of our own jobs. Making us work on understaffed stations, stopping us providing decent customer service from the ticket office, etc.

So why go along with this if we don't have to?! Remember you have the right to:

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Bullshit detectors to hand, everyone, as various senior managers drag themselves out from behind their desks to try to persuade us of the virtues of doing away with our jobs.

Tubeworker predicts ... current economic climate ... blah blah ... need to provide value for money ... blah blah ... changes...

As a driver I can't do my job alone. For me to carry out my duties safely and do my bit to keep the service running on time, which in turn reduces crowding and maintains safety, I need to work with station staff.

Platforms in the peak or during service disruptions are chaotic. At crowded...

'The Sun' took an interest in tube stations shutting last week, as a short closure of Arsenal station gave it an excuse to trot out the old anti-union cliches about railworkers mucking up the service by demanding too many tea breaks.

The truth of the matter is that a member of station staff at...

An appalling incident at Kenton station this morning shows just what risks London Underground are taking with safety with their compulsion to drive down staff numbers.

Sadly, there was a 'person under a train'. But a diffcult situation became much worse than it needed to be. Firstly, because the...

It seems that London Underground has put the word out round its managers that uncovered duties are to be left uncovered unless it is really really definitely crucial to the station's safety.

The thing is, management's definition of safety is rather different from workers' definition of safety. And...

London Underground's destructive urges continue unabated, with their latest effort - getting rid of emergency stop plungers on platforms.

They initially wanted drivers to operate them, so they could get away with having no station staff in the vicinity. Then drivers and union reps pointed out that...