As if casting around for a new excuse to strike after last month’s successful effort, the RMT have warned that swine flu could have a ‘devastating’ impact on the London Underground. Somewhat ominously, they are simultaneously demanding to see safety plans while dismissing them as …
Image by gary8345 from the Londonist Flickr pool Well, not quite. TfL is expected to announce it’s worked out how to save £2.5bn to meet the funding gap left by Metronet’s demise. In addition to the 1,000 redundancies that brought the RMT out on strike, …
By secretlondon123 Not content with bringing London to a standstill, the RMT are threatening further strikes if remaining disputes are not resolved. ‘I’m really pleased. It was a solid success,’ Bob Crow said yesterday. ‘The whole city ground to a halt and the disruption it …
Image author’s own So, there’s been a Tube strike. The inconvenience, the hours on (or waiting for) buses, the roads bloated by sudden influxes of cars, indignant Twitter updates by those forced to walk and Tweet at the same time has led some to punch …
Image by cooliceblue Boris Johnson and RMT boss Bob Crow never seemed particularly suited to each others’ very different worlds, and relations between them have broken down to a Christmas card list-purging level. Dave Hill has printed in full an aggressive letter released by Crow …
Picture taken from Mike Knell’s Flickr photostream under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence. Negotiators from TfL went to the offices of the conciliation service Acas this morning, appealing for RMT leaders to join them in last-ditch talks to avert the threatened tube strike. Unless …
Reproduced from Going Underground’s blog, courtesy of Annie Mole. The RMT is pulling out all the stops as talks continue to try and avert Tube strikes next week. An alleged memo from RMT leaders to ASLEF members has been published on the Going Underground blog …
Image by chutney bannister As if going on strike (again) over pay and job security wasn’t enough, the RMT have found something else to complain about. Is it Susan Boyle not winning Britain’s Got Talent? Is it the prospect of a scorching summer underground? No, …
Image by artofthestate Drivers of London’s taxi cabs are planning a protest today over what they claim are penurious pee charges. The cabbies are irked that, with a lack of dedicated taxi parking spaces, every time they want to spend a penny they’re obliged to …
A Londoner has just paid £70,000 for a suit. A very nice suit, admittedly, but still…. The Kings Cross lighthouse is to get a bit of fancy TLC. Spoilsports at Wimbledon have gone and covered the Centre Court, thus removing one of the few advantages …
Image by tezzer57 Cleaners who scrub Eurostar trains at St Pancras are considering industrial action over plans by Carlisle Cleaning Services to introduce a fingerprint-checking machine for clocking in and out. The RMT claim that staff data may be put at risk, and Bob Crow, …
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