RMT reps met yesterday to discuss the fight against ticket office cuts and closures.
Reps reported widespread anger and opposition to the cuts. LUL seems to want people to buy tickets at newsagents rather than Tube stations, but as one rep pointed out, it doesn't matter how many thousands of...
Metronet plans a "re-organisation" to get itself out its financial crisis. Although the crisis was caused by management, it is workers who will be made to pay the price. Here's how:
So it...
Tubeworker is still trying to get our head round the idea that while the country as a whole has a security level of 'critical', ours is a mere 'serious' (one step less serious than 'critical'). What, is London Underground some kind of place of safety, a refuge from the unsafe streets?!
Management...
It appears that there has been an increase in PTI incidents, which is especially worrying since the PTI is already the most dangerous place on the Underground.
The reasons? Management's insightful initial response is that "the main issues seemed to be customers getting caught in the doors and...
On the East End of the District Line the safety of staff and passengers are being put at risk to save money on Overtime. We at Tubeworker do not support the principle of overtime - we would rather there were enough staff to cover any eventuality. That said, LUL management have left us desperately...
There is a special issue of (printed) Tubeworker for the Bakerloo line ballot. Download it from here. Read the text below ...
RMT is now balloting members on the Bakerloo line to stop management imposing lone working. Drivers, detrainment staff and North Group stations reserve staff will all get a...
Here's the text of the latest leaflet from the local RMT branch. We couldn't agree more ...
Special Ballot Edition – June 2007 Bakerloo News
VOTE YES
Ballot papers have arrived. Vote YES for strike action on the Bakerloo!
Bakerloo RMT drivers and detrainment staff will have received their...
Make no mistake - the threat to dilute your right to an ill-health pension is a serious one.
At the moment, if you become too unwell to continue in your current job, your employment can be terminated on medical grounds and you will get a 10-year enhancement on your pension and no reduction for...
RMT is now balloting members on the Bakerloo line to stop management imposing lone working. Drivers, detrainment staff and North Group stations reserve staff will all get a vote, and should all vote YES for industrial action.
While LUL claim to put safety first and to be customer-focused, the...
We were recently telling you about under-staffing causing problems with getting drivers re-licensed. Seems this affects other grades too.
Out on the Barkingside group, managers have been trying it on with staff, telling them that the company has "done away with" the requirement for 28 days' notice...
The DLR area at Bank has a constant problem with mice - which we could just about live with, so long as the pest control contractor removed the dead bodies within a few hours of the trap catching them. But if, say, a couple of mice are caught at the weekend, and the contractor doesn't actually turn...
Following the recent successful RMT dispute with Metronet, workers who were going to be transferred to Bombardier are not going to be any more.
So why is Metronet asking them to sign an agreement opting out of their TUPE rights? There should be no need for any workers to sign away rights guaranteed...
Tubeworker has reported previously that the Regent's Park refurb included the physical bricking-up of the Ticket Office. It seems that this is not the only problem with it.
The planned training schedule had to be scrapped after inspections by safety reps found the site to be unsuitable for training...
Metronet gets most of the headlines for incompetence, but let us not forget TubeLines.
Tubeworker hears a rumour that management are looking at the possibility of CSAs not being track licensed. The phrases "saving money", "cutting corners" and "deskilling" come to mind. There are obvious implications for health and safety, especially for dealing with incidents and emergencies, where...
Remember the special events team? It has resurfaced as the 'special requirements team', and management want it to be paid for by the ticket office closures.
Excuse us, the 'special events team' was part of the stations shorter working week deal, and we (more than) paid for it then. LUL, obviously...
LUL is determined to press ahead with its ticket offices cuts and closures, despite the devastating effect on both customer service and our working conditions. Staff at many stations will now have seen that their station is in the firing line and will know that we need to fight off this attack. If...
As LUL moves on with plans to open the new Jubilee line depot at Stratford, the future for North Greenwich is unclear. The best option for drivers would be to keep the NOG depot, even at a reduced size, as it would avoid displacing people and would give drivers more options as to where to work -...
Note to LUL management ... the word 'upgrade' suggests that a station's facilities are to be improved. Hence, removing the Omniscan cameras from Bank/Monument - that's the ones you can spin around in all directions and zoom in on anything in view - is a bad idea.
Anyone would think that upgrade...
This is the full version of an article an edited version of which will be included in the next issue of Tubeworker
Our top politicians are feeling very smug in 2007, the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade - when the buying and selling of slaves was made illegal in British law. As...
A TubeLines Site Person in Charge accepted a forged Permit to Enter to a machine chamber at Old Street. The Station Supervisor picked up on it, and the unauthorised person left the station, but TubeLines did not query their procedures on how this had come about.
Under the new Rule Book, Station...
Yesterday, RMT's General Grades Committee (the Executive minus the Shipping representatives) voted to cancel the union's dispute with the employers over the Rule Book, using a legal hitch as a pretext. The union has voluntarily abandoned a battle before it had even really started. It is a shocking...
Metronet continues to spiral towards disaster, and has revealed new plans to make its workforce pay the price.
Metronet claims that it needs to cut the...
From 23rd May 2007, the Bakerloo line had five drivers whose Safety Critical Licences have expired, and who have also gone past their 28-day extensions. By management's own admission, they are therefore not qualified to drive trains in passenger service.
So what is management's answer? Take them...
RMT's latest Official Circular copies to members a letter from the union to LUL management on various industrial relations issues. In amongst comments on later running, redeployment policy and other issues, there lies a rather alarming statement about the Attendance Policy ... "Even though we have...
We all know that cleaning standards are not great on the Underground (not because of the cleaners themselves, but because of cowboy contractors and management's general disregard for safety standards). But few of us would have considered that we might risk facial paralysis just by touching some kit...
On Thursday (17th May), 50 RMT reps and activists turned up to a meeting to discuss how the union should fight LUL’s imposition of its lethal new Rule Book. With LUL going full steam ahead, and little response from the other unions, much of our hope for defeating this attack lies with an effective...
Even though many of the problems with Connect have still not been resolved, LUL is pressing ahead with training drivers in how the system 'works'.
Only it appears that they are not even doing the training right! You are supposed to get four hours' training on the base set, then another one to two...
The local RMT and ASLEF reps at East Finchley depot have produced a joint leaflet telling drivers about Driving Parameters and their rights at work. This follows a joint newsletter produced by the two union reps last year.
ASLEF's hierarchy have frowned on this, due to their silly, sectarian policy...
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