Translink (UNITE) Strike Calendar
Strike Type: Bus
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Public transport unions Unite, GMB and SIPTU have confirmed that their members have decisively voted to reject as inadequate a pay offer made by Translink management. The increase would have offered workers a five per cent increase plus a non-consolidated one-off payment of £1,500 for the 2023-2024 financial year.
Bus and rail workers voted with majorities of approximately 70 per cent to reject the pay offer. Following the ballot result, the unions will be holding fresh talks with Translink management to seek a resolution to the dispute.
The strikes represent an escalation of the industrial dispute by public transport workers who took initial strike action on Friday 1 December. The dispute centres over the unions’ demand for a cost-of-living adjustment pay increase. Workers are facing a real terms pay cut of 11 per cent due to the failure of Translink to offer workers a pay increase. Both Translink’s management and officials at the department for infrastructure have blamed the failure to offer a pay increase on the inadequacy of funding in the budget imposed by secretary of state for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris.
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