Staffing Levels

Resisting management's attempts to cut staffing levels

SRT, Victoria Centre, King's Cross, Heathrow: strike on 25 November!

RMT members in four areas on LUL stations - Victoria Centre (Euston/Green Park), King's Cross, Heathrow (Heathrow Terminals, Hatton Cross, Hounslow West), and the Special Requirements Team (SRT, a department of mobile station staff which provides extra staffing resources for events, projects, etc.)...

Job cuts and attacks on terms and conditions will spread unless we stop them

We have known all along that, as part of the cuts TfL/LUL promised the government they'd make in exchange for bailout funding, staffing levels and agreements in every area of the company were under review. This wasn't idle speculation, bosses said so explicitly in talks with our unions.

The 600...

Station staff: no OT from 20-26 November!

RMT has called an overtime ban on stations from 20-26 November.

It's time-limited, timed to support members on three areas - King's Cross, Heathrow, and the Special Requirements Team (SRT) - where workers plan to take action to protest the imposition of new rosters and a new framework, in the case...

Event planning failure?

19 September was an impromptu bank holiday and day of mourning following the demise of the Queen and her subsequent funeral that morning. Most businesses were closed and of course those who were making additional journeys into London would be in a sombre mood, not out partying all evening.

"Cost neutral"?

As LU pushes ahead with its plans for job cuts on stations, local reps are consulting members on the company's proposals. The pack issued to reps tells them that any proposed changes "must be cost neutral". They've even put it in bold, in case we miss it.

In other words, the company views its cuts...

Customer Misinformation

Yesterday, the company was telling passengers that Chancery Lane station was closed for engineeering works. It wasn't - it was closed because there were not enough station staff.

And it told the public that the Central Line had massive delays because of train cancellations. But why were there train...

Job cuts coming on fleet?

RMT’s recent strikes have rightly highlighted the 600 stations jobs LU currently has in its sights. But, unless they were stopped, it was always only a matter of time until they moved on to other functions.

It looks like the company is now holding vacancies in some fleet depots, which is very...

Lift Off

The extreme heat on Monday and Tuesday saw some station closures, including Oxford Circus, which closed for a couple of hours due to a fire alert, caused by a part in an escalator machine chamber overheating, and Lambeth North, which had to close when its lifts overheated.

Part of our role as...

Cleaners need minimum numbers

A correspondent from a busy Zone 1 station tells us the 15:00-23:00 cleaning shift on Friday was covered by just one cleaner. Sometimes there are as many as three, but usually at least two. Having just one cleaner working perhaps the busiest shift of the day, on a busy weekend, is indefensible.

The...

'Appy days?

The app to submit requests for mutual changeovers of duties and annual leave has definitely improved the MCO process. But we reckon that developing it further could lead to even more benefits for work/life balance, particularly on stations.

In train depots, although not without flaws and...

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