First West Yorkshire (UNITE) Strike Calendar
Strike Type: Bus
Latest Updates (3)
Leeds bus strikes, by members of Unite employed at First West Yorkshire, will be suspended for two weeks from Tuesday (20 June) to allow workers to be balloted on an improved deal.
Following extensive negotiations over the weekend, a new offer was put forward by First West Yorkshire’s management.
800 workers from Unite in Leeds are going on strike from Sunday, over when their pay rise is going to happen. The pay date was changed during Covid "in order to safeguard jobs and to enable us to offer an enhanced sick pay scheme during the pandemic", but the union says the delay in reverting to an April pay date will leave workers "left struggling during the cost-of-living crisis" and might not get a pay increase until October. The strike will cause "severe disruption" to customers who rely on the bus service.
Around 800 First West Yorkshire bus drivers will begin strike action every day from 18 June over the company’s refusal to return the date on which new pay rises are enacted back to normal.
The workers, who are members of Unite, the UK’s leading union, agreed during the pandemic to change their anniversary pay date to October to assist the company financially. First West Yorkshire has refused to move the date back to April however, meaning workers have been left struggling during the cost-of-living crisis and will not receive a much needed pay increase until October at the earliest.
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