Unite has celebrated a number of bus dispute victories resulting in significantly improved pay offers after members stood together and threatened strike action. Dozens of bus drivers and cleaners…Read more…
‘Tremendous victory’
The threat of strike action involving bus drivers employed by Stagecoach in south Lancashire has ended after members of Unite accepted a vastly improved pay offer. The 250 bus drivers, who are based…Read more…
Chesterfield bus strikes off
Planned strike action scheduled for next week by Chesterfield bus staff employed by Yorkshire Traction Company (part of the multimillion pound Stagecoach group) based at the Stonegravels bus depot…Read more…
Manchester braced for traffic turmoil
Greater Manchester is braced for severe travel disruption later this month as over 1,000 bus drivers employed by Stagecoach begin strike action over pay. The workers recorded an overwhelming yes vote…Read more…
Kinchbus drivers in strike vote
A pay dispute at Kinchbus could lead to serious disruption to bus services in Loughborough and the East Midlands, Unite said today (October 12). Around 50 Kinchbus drivers, who are amongst the lowest…Read more…
Stagecoach in Chesterfield ‘penny pinching’ on pay
Chesterfield bus passengers face serious disruption this autumn and winter if Stagecoach bus drivers and cleaners vote for strike action over a pay dispute, Unite said today (September 20). Unite…Read more…
London United bus workers out in full force on the picket line
Workers at all seven London United bus garages are on were out on strike on Thursday (April 15). The strikes went ahead after talks brokered by the conciliation service Acas broke up late earlier in…Read more…
London United bus strikes latest
The increasingly bitter dispute, involving London United, a subsidiary of the French owned company RATP, is set to intensify, after bus drivers at two more garages voted to join the industrial action…Read more…
Fresh London bus strikes as peace talks fail
London will face fresh bus strikes this week after peace talks failed to secure a breakthrough in the dispute over proposed attacks on conditions and real terms pay cuts. Bus drivers at the RATP…Read more…
Manchester mayor urged to intervene ahead of bus strikes
Unite, which represents over 400 bus drivers at Go North West, has written to the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham urging him to intervene, having becoming increasingly alarmed at the…Read more…