Bus drivers and supervisors who work for First Group and Metrobus are
going on strike tomorrow - at First Group they're striking for 48
hours, at Metrobus for 24 hours. The strike has been called by the
Unite union (the result of the 2007 merger between Amicus and the
T&GWU), who "want a standard £30,000 rate of pay for drivers across
the bus network" (so says the BBC webpage linked to below).

A list of the affected routes can be found on TfL's website here...
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/realtime/buses/default.html

...and on the BBC London webpages here...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2008/09/10/bus_strike_feature.shtml

I don't know whether either company will attempt to run any of their
services using non-union staff - running a skeleton service on certain
routes might be a recipe for more of a disaster than not running a
service at all. Any resources could I suppose be concentrated on
running a

Argh, that last post got posted prematurely, as I hadn't finished yet!
(Perhaps my presence here on utl is just not meant to be!). I will
continue...

On 11 Sep, 23:53, Mizter T gmail.com> wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

The odd thing is that Unite (formed from the merger of Amicus and the
T&HWU), First London and Transport for London all seem to have different
ideas as to when the strike is taking place.

According to First London, it'll be a 48 hour strike from 00:01 today
(Friday) and affect both sides of their London operation (First
CentreWest and First Capital East).

According to Unite, it's a 24 hour strike from 03:00, affecting Metrobus
(who concur with the timing) and First CentreWest.

And according to TfL, strikes MAY take place on Friday and Saturday,
affecting both Metrobus and First London.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see what actually happens in the morning.

Cheers,

On Sep 11, 11:53 pm, Mizter T gmail.com> wrote:

30K? Oh is that all. Perhaps they'd like share options while they're
at it?

Bus driving is for retarded cretins, why should they get 30K for doing
a job a trained chimp could do?

B2003

On 12 Sep, 10:01, Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Are you a retarded cretin or a trained chimp?

On Sep 12, 6:21 pm, Mizter T gmail.com> wrote:

You obviously are a retard and have the brain cells of a chimp to post
a comment like that for all to see!

In message
<28e797d8-e363-4dd8-9830-bdba0d4f0a4a@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Mizter T gmail.com> writes

He/she is a troll. I'd have thought you would have realised that by now.

On 12 Sep, 19:25, michaeljaco...@googlemail.com wrote:

I notice that one of the East London Line replacement services was wiped out
by the strike. Is this the first time a railway replacement has been hit by
a strike?

On 13 Sep, 04:13, "John Rowland"
journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

That would be the ELW service operated (or not) by First that serves
Wapping, Shadwell, and Whitechapel (and also Shoreditch during certain
times but only with a half-hourly frequency now I think). No idea
whether this is a first or not... (no pun intended!).