(10 Mar 2013, 6:55 pm)gtomlinson wrote(10 Mar 2013, 3:13 pm)Daniel wrote I don't know if, in 2009 (the strike that I mentioned above), drivers were temporarily brought over from other depots to cover for those striking or not, but it seems an approximation of a Sunday service was being covered that day?
Obviously won't be possible to have a Sunday service if that was the case, as all depots are affected this time around.
The 09 strike was fairly minor to be fair Daniel.
You probably weren't born () but the last major strike was in the 90s and lasted quite a long time!
Nexus may contract out the secured services and bill GNE but it's not easy to find a fleet of buses/drivers to do things. It's more complicated than it's worth.
Wasn't that strike in the 90's like a good couple of weeks or something? I think the late Peter Huntley once said in the Buses and Coaches magazine that it nearly killed the company.