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Eric the Half a Bee

15-10-21, 20:23

Services from the depots in Blackwood, Brynmawr, Pontypool and Cwmbran are going to be severely disrupted from Tuesday as drivers go on strike over pay and conditions. Stagecoach drivers in other parts of the UK are also striking. Arriva drivers are planning similar actions.

The bus industry looks like the next that will have a radical shake up. Services have been hit as drivers have had to isolate having suffered Covid. There is also some evidence of bus drivers turning to haulage after wages have risen dramatically there.

life on mars

15-10-21, 20:33

I know a phew drivers and they are so poorly paid some are paid 9.25 to 9.50 they want 10.50 which is not unreasonable.

Llandaff Blue

15-10-21, 20:36

Good on them

life on mars

15-10-21, 20:39

Good on them

Indeed the responsibility is important to others ,when you consider train drivers wages as a comparison its crazy .

chris lee

15-10-21, 20:43

Family friend is a train driver is on about £60k a year, says he could never drive a bus driver much harder job..

meanwhile warehouse workers earn more than them. Good luck to them with their strike.

life on mars

15-10-21, 21:23

Eric the Half a Bee

15-10-21, 22:13

I know a phew drivers and they are so poorly paid some are paid 9.25 to 9.50 they want 10.50 which is not unreasonable.

Bus operations since privatisation have got worse. Bus operators operate most of their services on a commercial basis, the unprofitable ones receive some local authority subsidy.

Giving drivers a thoroughly deserved wage rise will hit passengers in the pocket, at a time where fare paying passengers is in decline and reimbursement from free bus passes is at an all time low per head.

I can't see a way that the bus industry will thrive as things are if drivers can earn much more elsewhere. Government intervention might be essential. Perhaps we'll get back to having a nationalised bus industry....

nugent

15-10-21, 23:40

Anyone who strikes is a ^%$& if you ask me.
Take the job or don't.
Go and do something better paid then.
You're a poxy bus driver like.
Fack off mun

Optimistic Nick

15-10-21, 23:49

All part of the quiet revolution that is the great resignation. Some of the forecasts for labour shortages in vital sectors are terrifying.

Optimistic Nick

15-10-21, 23:53

Anyone who strikes is a &^*% if you ask me.
Take the job or don't.
Go and do something better paid then.
You're a poxy bus driver like.
Fack off mun
Nobody did ask you. It’s common practice to say “don’t take offence, but” before saying something like this, but you should take offence by it: you come across as a mouth breathing, knuckle dragging moron.

Henry Hill

16-10-21, 00:08

Anyone who strikes is a &^*% if you ask me.
Take the job or don't.
Go and do something better paid then.
You're a poxy bus driver like.
Fack off mun

If they are only a “poxy bus driver” why are you getting so wound up?

fingers

16-10-21, 07:14

Optimistic Nick

16-10-21, 12:09

My concerns are more long term. With trials on driverless cars starting in the UK, where would that leave buses, taxi driver jobs and even car ownership?
Call a driverless car on your phone, it picks you up and takes you to your destination and then moves on to the next pick-up. Going home? Order another one.

I don't really see the downside to this. It sounds preferable to car ownership; and if chunks of the population are freed up from doing tasks like driving, can't we focus efforts on more forward-looking activities?

bobh

16-10-21, 12:23

Anyone who strikes is a ^%$& if you ask me.
Take the job or don't.
Go and do something better paid then.
You're a poxy bus driver like.
Fack off mun

Don't sit on the fence, get it off your chest.

Croesy Blue

16-10-21, 12:33

Anyone who strikes is a ^%$& if you ask me.
Take the job or don't.
Go and do something better paid then.
You're a poxy bus driver like.
Fack off mun

What if the terms change once you’re in the job? If it wasn’t for striking we’d have hardly any of the benefits we currently have for workers in this country.

splott parker

16-10-21, 13:16

Anyone who strikes is a ^%$& if you ask me.
Take the job or don't.
Go and do something better paid then.
You're a poxy bus driver like.
Fack off mun

How many kids you got up the chimney today?

fingers

16-10-21, 13:25

I don't really see the downside to this. It sounds preferable to car ownership; and if chunks of the population are freed up from doing tasks like driving, can't we focus efforts on more forward-looking activities?

I agree with you but my point was more to do with a swathe of taxi/bus drivers being made redundant, never mind the coach building industry.

Llandaff Blue

16-10-21, 14:28

Anyone who strikes is a ^%$& if you ask me.
Take the job or don't.
Go and do something better paid then.
You're a poxy bus driver like.
Fack off mun

Bootlicking knobhead

splott parker

16-10-21, 15:13

I agree with you but my point was more to do with a swathe of taxi/bus drivers being made redundant, never mind the coach building industry.

Had a taxi home from town after the Reading game, driver was telling me that Cardiff is overloaded with cabbies, too many. Young fella about 30 I s’pose, said he’d love to get into the heavy goods game but had no way of affording the initial financial lay out and if he could would he get work immediately with no HGV experience. Catch 22.

NYCBlue

16-10-21, 19:26

Anyone who strikes is a ^%$& if you ask me.
Take the job or don't.
Go and do something better paid then.
You're a poxy bus driver like.
Fack off mun

Is this a joke? Why should owners of companies get away with underpaying their staff? What's wrong with driving a bus 8 hours a day? Bus driving is a skilled job and requires a certain level of responsibility. And of course, you have to deal with people looking down on you for no good reason. Could you drive a bus through London?