TfL should not be cutting 950 posts
Many of those staff are still needed to help customers.
Many of those staff are still needed to help customers.
Is it any wonder that the RMT is striking when the majority of Londoners don’t want ticket offices closed?
Is it any surprise that London Underground workers walk out when the media – and the BBC of all places – ignores the issues until there is a strike?
Where is the room in London Underground’s brave new world for disabled people, poor people and non-English speakers?
Calls are once again being made to tighten Britain’s strike laws. However Britain already has some of the most draconian industrial relations laws in Europe.
If you can’t get to work today, you could do worse than head down to a picket line and offer your support, or at least ask a trade unionist why they have decided to strike.
Boris Johnson entered office in 2008 with a firm pledge to keep ticket offices open.
Andrew Dismore, Labour’s GLA candidate for Camden and Barnet, takes apart London Mayor Boris Johnson’s 9-point “Plan for London”.
Tom Copley fact checks Channel Four’s Fact Check, and finds that they are buying TfL’s spin hook, line and sinker.
Alex Hern shows that the proposed Northern Line extension has always been condemned as “a cut-price stand-alone extension, built for one purpose only – private profit.”