First Bus drivers in Glasgow vote for strike action
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We will support our First Bus drivers all the way in their fight for better jobs, pay and conditions.” The drivers are employed by First Glasgow and First Glasgow, which are part of First Group’s bus operations in Scotland. Unite said average pay per employee has failed to keep pace with inflation at either First Bus company, with a real-terms decrease of 10% at Glasgow and 8% at Glasgow over the last five years. First Bus said it has made a pay offer of “a pay rise of over 11%, well above the rate of inflation”. “Unless First Bus moves quickly to improve their pay offer, then our members will bring bus operations to a stop for a week beginning on November 24.
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