Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

Good on them

[life on mars]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

Good on them

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

[chris lee]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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.

Stagecoach has offered 10.10 ,bless them .

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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.

[Optimistic Nick]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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]

Re: Stagecoach bus drivers going on strike next week

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.