RE: Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
(25 Oct 2023, 2:14 pm)Adrian wrote Another one that looks like it's been written by someone that has been slapped across the face with a copy of the S*n...
From this paragraph, it sounds like the offer will be put to ballot: "The next move is for Unite to ballot its members. An endorsement for the new pay rates should allow the union to call off its indefinite strike due to start on Saturday 28 October."
What isn't clear, probably due to the tabloid-style writing, is whether it'd be recommended for acceptance.
(28 Oct 2023, 10:38 am)col87 wrote Well it seems to me the current management are doing there best to kill off go north east. I do not see this ending very well and if I was Stagecoach Arriva or of the independents i would be using any loophole i could to be setting up services in the areas most affected and trying to do it on an emergency basis with a view to it been permanent and nicking Go North East’s passengers.
In theory you would think Go North East would be doing everything to make it don’t last 12 weeks but i get the impression the current management don’t care to much so i have to wonder if someone higher up from the Go Ahead will eventually step in to try sort something out. Passengers in the meantime are going to make do or find alternatives to get about so while a majority will go back to using them when services are restored they is likely going to be a drop in passengers
Stagecoach have the entire country to lean on for buses, driver numbers are the problem. Stagecoach could do it if they wanted to, seems the old fashioned spirit no longer exists.
