London Transit (UNITE) Strike Calendar
Strike Type: Bus
Latest Updates (4)
Over 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company in West London are to take further strike action after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. Workers have already walked out for four days earlier this autumn and are now heading to the picket line on 14, 17, 18, 26, 27 and 28 Nov. Drivers, engineers and stores workers based at the Westbourne Park depot are furious at the below inflation pay offer they have received from their parent company, First Bus.
Over 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company in West London are to take further strike action after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. Workers have already walked out for two days earlier this autumn and are now heading to the picket line on Friday 26 September and Monday 29 September. Drivers, engineers and storemen based at the Westbourne Park depot are furious at the below inflation pay offer they have received from their employer, First Bus.
Parents and pupils heading back-to-school are set to be hit by bus strike chaos as nearly 2,000 workers at London United and London Transit taking strike action on Friday 29 August and Monday 1 September. Members of the Unite, Britain's leading union, are furious that not all elements of the new pay offer they have received from their employer are being backdated to the pay anniversary date n December. This would mean drivers losing out on hundreds of pounds of back pay after First Bus bought the company earlier this year from RATP. One of the subsidiaries involved, London United, is also attempting to change the pay anniversary of some workers and is refusing to reinstate shift work premiums for others.
More than 350 West London bus drivers and engineers will begin six days of strike action over pay on Friday (10 November), Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today (Tuesday).
The workers, who are employed by London Transit, which is owned by French-company RATP, are striking after they rejected a 6.8 per cent pay offer. This is a significant real terms pay cut as the real rate of inflation, RPI, stood at 11.4 per cent when the pay increase was supposed to be applied in April. The dispute is also over the company's attempt to reduce terms and conditions, including removing a longstanding £500 meal relief payment and attacking arrangements for a how workers take days off in lieu. Increasing bad feeling at the company, is the fact that it takes workers seven years to reach the full rate of pay, even though at most other bus companies it only takes three years of service.
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