Please find attached the Special Summer Edition of The Neasden Flyer. You can read the text below:

If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the WPK depot!

Local Members and Representatives know too well how hot summer temperatures can get underground. So when you are relieved for meal break, you would expect to have your meal break in comfortable, temperature controlled conditions, right?

Well despite local representative’s battling for decent air conditioning, or Temporary fixes, we are still being submitted to extreme temperatures. The Local Management claim that there is no money available to fix this issue. Perhaps we should grow tomatoes in the canteen, corridors and staircases, as in the height of summer, these are hotter than most garden greenhouses. We could sell our crop at the Wembley Market and raise the cash for air‐conditioning that way!

Until this issue is resolved, you are reminded that if you feel “heat‐stressed” you are entitled to a Personal Needs Relief, but this should be taken in a cool room.

If no cool room is available and you still feel heat stressed, you must remember that as operational London Underground staff, that you have a responsibility for the SAFETY of yourself, your colleagues and your passengers, and would entitled to restart your meal relief in accommodation that is suitable for purpose. Remember, in the heat, try and keep cool, drink plenty of fluids and most of all, Be SAFE!