Bus drivers on strike

Around 700 workers at Stagecoach in Newcastle and South Shields are on strike today.

Submitted by Mike Harman on October 23, 2006

They rejected a pay offer last week after a ballot by the T&G union, and will be on strike again on Friday if their pay offer of 12%, scaled in over a 28 month period, is not reviewed. Previously, Stagecoach workers in Sunderland accepted the offer after a similar ballot by GMB. Stagecoach has drafted in scabs from around the country to run a skeleton service.

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