First Bus Glasgow (UNITE) Strike Calendar
Strike Type: Bus
Latest Updates (5)
Unite has confirmed today (Wednesday 19 November) that workers who clean and refuel buses for First Bus in Glasgow are being balloted over jobs, pay and conditions. Around 50 First Bus cleaners, fuellers and shunters at the Caledonia, Scotstoun, Blantyre and Overtown bus depots are involved in the dispute. The bus workers and cleaners are demanding that a proposed pay increase is brought into line with other bargaining groups including drivers, because they are the lowest paid within the First group. Without the cleaning, refuelling and re-charging of First Glasgow’s fleet then buses across Glasgow will have to be taken off the roads for safety, cleanliness and re-charging reasons.
Unite the union, today (Wednesday 22 November) confirmed that over 1,200 First Glasgow drivers have received an improved pay offer leading to the suspension of scheduled industrial action. The new pay offer was formally put to Unite this morning following a further round of talks held at the conciliation service Acas. Unite said that that the strike action scheduled to start on Friday 24 November continuing until Friday 1 December is now suspended to allow the membership to be balloted on the new offer.
Unite, Scotland’s leading trade union, confirmed today (Monday 13 November) that around 150 engineers who maintain and repair First Glasgow’s bus operations have secured a significant pay deal.
Unite’s engineers emphatically backed the new offer by 92 per cent which will see the hourly wage increase by a minimum of 17.6 per cent by April 2024. The pay deal will initially increase wages from £15.31 to £17.50, and thereafter to a minimum of £18 per hour in April 2024. This equates to a minimum income rise of over £5,000.
Around 1,200 Unite bus drivers are involved in a similar pay dispute with First Bus. The bus drivers voted by 99 per cent in support of strike action on a high turnout of 77 per cent. Strike action is scheduled to start at 04:00 on Friday 24 November continuing until Friday 1 December when the action concludes at 3.59am - unless there is a breakthrough in pay talks.
Unite the union has today (Wednesday 8 November) confirmed that over 1,200 First Glasgow drivers have emphatically backed strike action in a dispute over pay.
The bus drivers voted by 99 per cent in support of strike action on a high turnout of 77 per cent. Unite, which represents the workers, has confirmed that strike action is scheduled to start at 4am on Friday 24 November continuing until Friday 1 December when the action concludes at 3.59am.
The engineers are involved in a pay dispute with both First Glasgow (No1) and First Glasgow (No2). Unite members rejected a revised pay offer from both companies, who are part of First Group PLC’s bus operations in Scotland, on the basis that it did not meet the ‘expectations’ of members after years of real terms pay cuts.
Unite research has discovered that the average pay per employee has failed to keep pace with inflation at either First Bus company, with a real terms decrease of 10 per cent at Glasgow (No 2) and eight per cent at Glasgow (No 1) over the last five years. These pay cuts translate into around £3,000 per year in lost pay.
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