Central Line falling concrete incident reinforces case against driverless trains

Submitted by Admin on 25 February, 2016 - 03:24

RMT says that Central Line falling concrete incident reinforces case against driverless trains and for protecting track patrols.

General Secretary Mick Cash said;

"This incident of falling concrete from development works above the Central Line is not the first of its kind and with whole swathes of London now a building site it rams home the dangers for the tube network as developers rush ahead with their projects. 

TfL ordered to retain former Silverlink ticket offices at several locations

Submitted by Admin on 25 February, 2016 - 03:20

Statutory London passenger body orders Transport for London to keep some ticket offices open after RMT campaign.

RAIL UNION RMT can reveal today that after a careful review, London TravelWatch has ordered Transport for London to keep a number of former Silverlink ticket offices open - thereby throwing into question the credibility of TfL’s entire ticket office closure programme.

Fit For The Future: A Warning from the front line !

Submitted by CLE on 24 February, 2016 - 11:41

Your workmates on the " Vanguard groups" of Leytonstone and Central line east want you to know what is happening since Fit for the future (stations) was imposed on 7th Feb. This is what awaits you all unless we stand up to London Underground and demand better.

Please use the link to download the Attached document. read, download, print, email and circulate this as everyone needs to know whats in store

DLR cleaners to be balloted on range of issues

Submitted by Admin on 20 February, 2016 - 02:55

CHANGES TO CLEANING OPERATIONS – INTERSERVE FACILITIES (KEOLIS AMEY DOCKLANDS) (DLR/15/4)

Further to my previous Circular (IR/029, 5th February 2016), this matter has again been considered by the National Executive Committee, which has noted correspondence from the Branch advising of additional issues arising from Interserve’s implementation of changes to cleaning agreements as follows:-

Breaches of agreements lead to Piccadilly strike ballot

Submitted by Admin on 20 February, 2016 - 02:52

BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TRAIN OPERATORS, PICCADILLY LINE – LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)

As members may recall (Circular No. IR/236/15, 1st October 2015), we declared a dispute situation with LUL in September 2015 and balloted all Train Operator and Instructor Operator members for strike action and action short of a strike. This dispute was as a result of a catalogue of issues on the line including:-

Tube bosses to suspend the training of non-permanent employees for track patrolling purposes for two weeks

Submitted by Admin on 20 February, 2016 - 02:41

TRACK PATROLLING, CLESHAR STAFF – LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/1)

Further to my previous Circular (IR/029, 5th February 2016), discussions took place at ACAS last week and progress was made over LUL’s decision to train Cleshar staff to undertake Track Patrolling duties. As a result, the National Executive Committee took the decision to suspend the strike action which was due to commence on Friday 12th February.