(02 Oct 2023, 12:10 pm)Unber43 wrote Looking at all the school buses if it was management running the routes than i think I can see where GNE money problems are coming from with the amount of managers theyve got
It won't just be management. There are numerous former drivers in back office roles within Recruitment and HR, H&S, Commercial and also the control team has numerous staff with the correct licenses. Then add in management, staff managers, General managers etc. Then you add in the agency drivers they currently are employing for the 351 and 359 who, since they are not doing their regular routes, no doubt are also deployed on the scholars and DFDS etc
Then on top of those will be the drivers who are not in the union, so therefore would not get the £70 a day union payment and probably don't want to or can't afford to lose a whole weeks wage so have chosen to carry on working and then finally there will be those who are in the union but voted no to striking, of which there were 22 of them, who may have also chosen to carry on working.
All of those put together would just about cover what is needed