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Unite members at Arriva North London have won a groundbreaking agreement to improve the working conditions of drivers, including the installation of air conditioning, after taking industrial action. The 1,500 drivers, based at Barking, Edmonton, Enfield, Grays, Palmers Green, Stamford Hill, Tottenham and Wood Green, took industrial action last month over hot weather working conditions. […]
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“Verbal abuse is a daily occurrence while driving a bus…It can range from basic insults of being told you are rubbish at your job to personal insults to racial insults to threats to your personal safety.” This is just one anonymous experience from a Scottish bus driver who responded to a Unite survey of over […]
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London bus drivers organised a march and rally on Tuesday (5 Nov) to highlight the unsafe and “intolerable” working conditions they are expected to put up with, and Unite has supported them all the way. Hundreds of drivers gathered outside Ron Todd House in Moreland Street before marching through the streets of the capital to […]
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