Training

Training and (re-)licensing

Dress Casual

The latest plan for ATOR (or whatever it is called now) will be a two-day course, the first in our own clothes where we listen all day long to management propaganda. The company seemingly thinks that by allowing us our own clothes, it can give the illusion that this brings us closer to management...

Wot No Lift Training?

LU is making a dog's dinner of its new lift training procedures, and has now been caught out trying to bully staff.

New training regulations are supposed to mean that staff on lift stations are trained on site, rather than on some random lift on another station. But when management tried to do the...

Defend our Licences

We were informed the other day of the ‘good news’ that our Continuous Development Program (CDP) will be shorter: two days for supervisors and one day for CSAs.

We might breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of less time sat in a classroom.

But this is not good news. It is important to defend...

Briefing Stalled

CSAs have been briefed on a new procedure for when trains are stalled in tunnels.

'Brief' is certainly the word for it! A few minutes to run through the 'one hour target', how we would detrain all trains immediately without waiting to see if the stalled train could be moved.

The diagram telling...

Wot No Training?

Recent reports from new CSAs coming out of Ashfield House say that they only get five full days of training now! What a contrast to the month of intensive training gained by many older members of staff back when London Underground was bothered about running a railway.

It's obviously cheaper to...

Training Other Companies' Staff To Do Our Jobs

It seems that staff destined for the Heathrow Terminal 5 are to be trained at Queen's Park station in detrainments.

But Heathrow T5 is to be staffed by non-LUL staff, so why are we letting them train on our stations?!

This has no doubt been agreed with LUL management. Pity they didn't agree it...

Management Use Disability Rights As Cover For Attack

Management have circulated a document to the disabled staff network group that should ring alarm bells for everyone - able-bodied and disabled alike. Under the progressive and welcome aim of employing more disabled staff in frontline jobs, they propose to remove some of the licensing requirements...

Licences Expired (Again)

It seems that many of the Control Room staff at Neasden have been working despite their safety-critical licensing having expired.

Management's explanation is that there has been a failure of the 'systemised management system'. Brilliant: a systemised system. What next? Safe safety? A licence to...

Familiar At Last

Tubeworker has been saying for a long long time that Station Supervisors ought to be track familiarised. Management's persistent failure to ensure this has led to many incidents of unnecessarily long service disruption and distress to staff.

Well finally, management have agreed to union...

Wrong Direction? Wrong Rules!

It seems that we all continue to ignore the new Rule Books, preferring to stick to procedures that we know are safe. For instance, earlier this week, during the signal failure on the District line, a driver needed to do a Wrong Direction Move near Dagenham East - and naturally, needed the station...

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