Bus drivers will stage one other walkout on April 7 in an “more and more bitter” dispute about cuts to their pay.
Their strike will have an effect on 52 routes throughout west and south west London earlier than formally ending at 6am on Thursday, April 8.
The drivers are employed by operator London United, contracted by Transport for London. An additional strike is scheduled for April 15.
Represented by the Unite commerce union, they’ve held strikes on eight separate days this yr after the corporate revealed proposed adjustments to their situations.
Drivers worry shedding £2,000 a yr due to adjustments that might see them not obtain pay for breaks or time spent ready for his or her bus to arrive. Instead, they’d solely be paid for time spent “logged in” to their automobiles.
RATP, the French firm that owns London United and two different operators within the capital, mentioned: “Despite the numerous monetary challenges, RATP has made a number of totally different pay provides, which Unite representatives both rejected or deferred presenting to the employees.
“[Our] supply features a truthful pay rise above the buyer value index, and no adjustments to phrases and situations. Several weeks in the past, we agreed that phrases and situations wouldn’t change. Any info to the opposite is categorically unsuitable.”
Drivers concerned in tomorrow’s strike are based mostly at garages in Fulwell, Park Royal, Shepherd’s Bush, Tolworth, Stamford Brook, Hounslow and Hounslow Heath.
A Unite assertion mentioned: “The more and more bitter dispute, involving London United, a subsidiary of the French owned firm RATP, is about to intensify, after bus drivers at two extra garages voted to be a part of the commercial motion over pay and assaults on situations.”
Unite regional officer Michelle Braveboy mentioned: “The drivers who’ve been thought of key staff all through the dispute are rightly asking how on earth RATP believes it’s acceptable to lower drivers’ pay in actual phrases and undermine their situations, once they have gone above and past the decision of obligation to hold London shifting.”
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A press release from TfL mentioned: “We are urging each RATP and Unite the Union to use their ongoing talks to resolve the difficulty as quickly as doable…
“TfL is doing all it might to minimise the disruption, together with contacting all registered clients of the affected routes. Countdown indicators and posters at bus stops and in stations can even warn of potential disruption.”
The following bus routes might be affected on April 7
24 hour routes:
148, 220, 281, 111, 85, 94
School and evening routes:
N18, N33, N65, N72, N266, 613, 662, 665, 671, 681, 696, 697
Day routes:
H98, K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, S3, H22, H32, H37, 283, 371, 406, 411, 418, 419, 423, 440, 465, C1, 216, 223, 224, 265, 266, 33, 65, 70, 71, 72, 110, 111, 116, 203
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