Victoria line

Wot No Plunger?

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...

Management Leave Section 12 Station without Supervisor

A shocking incident on the Victoria line on 10 August shows just how reckless management are getting with our and our passengers' safety.

After a report of a loud banging noise between Tottenham Hale and Blackhorse Road northbound, the controller asked the Tottenham Hale Station Supervisor to ride...

PA or Passenger Safety?

And on the subject of new train stock, it seems that there are a couple of glitches with the new Victoria line trains - a less-than-perfect PA system, and a problem with the doors whereby the 'sensitive edge' may not stay sensitive forever.

So, which of these two problems do you think management...

Vic Line strike even more solid

Belatedly, a quick report on last week's Vic line strike, which was even more solid than the last one! None only did - one again - no trains run, but fewer strike-breakers crawled in to work: just three this time.

Management made a sly attempt to disrupt the end of the strike by inventing duties...

Victoria Line Strikes Again

Join the picket lines: Wednesday evening 9pm Seven Sisters; Thursday morning from start of traffic at Seven Sisters, Walthamstow Central, Victoria, Brixton and Northumberland Park. Mass picket at Seven Sisters at 12pm Thurasday.

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Management have refused to back down, and have upheld the...

Vic Line Drivers' Strike Success

An overwhelming majority of drivers from Seven Sisters depot took part in the yesterday’s Victoria Line strike. It was a spectacular display of solidarity, the first time a strike has closed the Victoria Line in its history. Estimates say that only about five out of 180 drivers turned up to work...

Support the Vic Line Drivers' Strike!

Tuesday/Wednesday's Vic line drivers' strike looks like being pretty solid. ASLEF members have found themselves needing the protection of two unions at this time, so despite the Society's failure to ballot, all drivers can join in anyway!

Faced with solid action, LUL management will have to...

Vic Line Drivers To Strike

Vic Line drivers at Seven Sisters have voted 82-17 to strike over a 'breakdown of industrial relations' at the depot - a piece of jargon that in this case means management's sacking of a workmate, refusal to install CSDE kit, victimisation of a prominent RMT activist, and the persecution of sick...

Another Vic Driver Sacked

We already knew that the disciplinary clampdown was well out of hand, but it is now way beyond a joke. LUL has sacked a Vic Line driver for stealing lost property that he was retrieving!!

Driver Jamie Witchell noticed that a customer was banging on the doors as he departed a station, and realised...

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

London Underground's 'Rainbow' software sounds the alarm whenever it spots a 'pattern' of non-attendance. It is quite bad enough that these 'patterns' are often simply coincidences. But what makes matters worse is that they are also picking up on absences for which you should not get even the hint...

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