Tube Lines

Tube Lines' 'performance' and workers' demands for better conditions

Action at Alstom

Jubilee Line train maintainers at Stratford Market Depot are striking for pay parity with the Northern Line.

Stratford was set up as a brand new depot, not transferred from LU like the Northern Line. Alstom saw this as a licence to write contracts with inferior terms and conditions.

Train...

TubeLines Hits the Buffers?

TubeLines got a nasty shock last month when the PPP Arbiter turned down its over-the-top demands for funding for the second part of its PPP contract. Blaming (mainly) TubeLines for the Jubilee line fiasco, the Arbiter ruled that the Infraco will have to settle for nearly £1.5 billion less than it...

Hampstead Lifts Fiasco

For most of July, the power to the lifts at Hampstead, the deepest lift underground station, repeatedly failed. The four lifts are well past their sell-by-date, but TubeLines have decided to operate them to their full life expectancy.

With no power to the lifts, all four were getting stuck in the...

Emcor workers fight pay cut

Workers at Emcor Rail, who are contracted in by Tubelines to do infrastructure work, were told that they would lose their jobs, while others would have to take pay cuts, lose holiday, and other benefits.

The RMT was invited in by their manager to break this bad news to the workforce. The...

A costly cock-up

While upgrading the signalling system on the Jubilee Line extension, Tubelines have laid miles and miles of the wrong kind of cable, setting the upgrade project back by months. Some high-up managers will have a lot of questions to answer on how a cock-up of this magnitude could come about. This...

TubeLines Culls Admin Staff

TubeLines is cutting a team of 28 admin staff down to just 16. Having announced a consultation about the redundancies - as they are legally obliged to do - the company then moved with undue haste to imsisting that all 28 staff apply for the remaining 16 jobs, in a sick game of muscial chairs where...

Was RMT right to suspend the TubeLines strike?

RMT has suspended its strike action after TubeLines made the following two-year offer:

Year 1:

  • 4.99% pay rise, backdated to 1st April 2008.
  • Apprentices and other grades on less than £20,000 to receive £1,000 pay rise backdated to 1 April 2008.
  • Points Technicians to receive 4.99% plus a further...

TubeLines Strike Ballot: Vote Yes!

Funny how a company can make huge profits but still 'can't afford' to give its workers a decent pay rise. Or not so funny, if you work for TubeLines.

The Infraco's derisory offer would leave workers trailing behind people doing the same jobs in Metronet. It also leaves TubeLines with a two-tier...

Infracos Beware

Metronet and TubeLines workers' strike committee met last night to co-ordinate their action across the entire network. Leading London Underground union activists were also on hand to give solidarity and support for the coming strikes and promised to refuse to work if they were under imminent danger...

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