tubeworker bulletin (London underground) 26 October 2002
AWL Tubeworkers | 28.10.2002 12:48
Tubeworker bulletin, downloadable (2 sides A4, PDF, link here), says that Tube workers should refuse to operate trains and stations during FBU strikes on grounds of safety. The unions, RMT and ASLEF, have circulated leaflets informing workers about their rights to refuse to work in what they consider unsafe conditions, but Tubeworker is the only literature circulated to Underground workers making an outright call to refuse. Tubeworker is produced by and for workers on the tube regardless of their grade or union, and comes out generally fortnightly. Take a look, print it out, copy it and distribute it!
The FBU's suspension of its strike action, the same day, has made some of the text in this Tubeworker
out of date, but with a few sentences deleted the rest is still valid, and should help preparations for FBU strikes due from 6 November.
In some depots, activists are planning to canvass drivers before the strike date and get them to prepare in advance the standard letters refusing to work without fire service cover. On the day of any strike, activists will be on the spot at the time the strike starts, encouraging drivers to refuse to take out trains.
Station staff face more problems in coordinating action, but every station supervisor has the right to declare a station unsafe and then start a standard London Underground procedure. That procedure can lead to a higher manager taking over the station and reopening it - but how many managers will the Underground have available for such work?
A new issue of Tubeworker will be out soon.
Contents of this issue:
side 1: It's not safe to work without fire cover; stand up for health and safety at work, help the firefighters
side 2: defend leighton evans; vote phil boston for rmt president; wet wet wet; funny phone calls - on victimisation caused strikes - but from whom?; the dating game; passport to chaos; fbu strike dates; fbu warns on safety; black tube workers' rank and file group AGM and social.
Stories for tubeworker to mailto:
office@workersliberty.org
Get each issue of tubeworker sent to you by post: send a fiver (payable to "WL Bulletins") to AWL Tubeworker, PO Box 823, London SE15 4NA. There are also regular Tubeworker meetings, get in touch for more details, or if you want to take action on some of the issues we have covered.
Download the latest issue (26 October 2002) of Tubeworker here:
out of date, but with a few sentences deleted the rest is still valid, and should help preparations for FBU strikes due from 6 November.
In some depots, activists are planning to canvass drivers before the strike date and get them to prepare in advance the standard letters refusing to work without fire service cover. On the day of any strike, activists will be on the spot at the time the strike starts, encouraging drivers to refuse to take out trains.
Station staff face more problems in coordinating action, but every station supervisor has the right to declare a station unsafe and then start a standard London Underground procedure. That procedure can lead to a higher manager taking over the station and reopening it - but how many managers will the Underground have available for such work?
A new issue of Tubeworker will be out soon.
Contents of this issue:
side 1: It's not safe to work without fire cover; stand up for health and safety at work, help the firefighters
side 2: defend leighton evans; vote phil boston for rmt president; wet wet wet; funny phone calls - on victimisation caused strikes - but from whom?; the dating game; passport to chaos; fbu strike dates; fbu warns on safety; black tube workers' rank and file group AGM and social.
Stories for tubeworker to mailto:
office@workersliberty.org Get each issue of tubeworker sent to you by post: send a fiver (payable to "WL Bulletins") to AWL Tubeworker, PO Box 823, London SE15 4NA. There are also regular Tubeworker meetings, get in touch for more details, or if you want to take action on some of the issues we have covered.
Download the latest issue (26 October 2002) of Tubeworker here:
AWL Tubeworkers
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