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Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action

Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action

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RE: Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
I think some drivers have gone back to work, not out of choice, but because they can't afford to live even with the union incentive. They have become dependant on the regular overtime just to survive, and that is something no company should be effecively forcing an inidividual to live like. I genuinely feel for people who are in this position.

Management on the whole for always to some degree been seen as for each other and not for anyone else, it seems that they have gone to the next level and outwardly 'proud' of not giving a flying f*!k about anyone other than themselves. To be honest I don't think group gives a toss either as long as the bottom line isn't affected.

I wonder how the beligerant driver who appeared on Look North is still in service after reportedly hitting several drivers on the picket line recently. In any other time that would be gross misconduct and dismissal, and at the very least suspension pending investigation.

Lying about intentions from management isn't anything new - directors have told staff to their faces at depot forums in the past that they are committed to the future of a service (post COVID) and to investing in a depot, only to reallocate and withdraw buses and services weeks later and trying to run services from another depot to see if they could close it.

Oh. and although I presume OneTeamGNE is now defunct - I wonder how many of the original people (including operational staff) involved still work for GNE?
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What started out as a pay dispute has turned out into trying to change terms and conditions (despite them saying it isn't tied in - everyone clearly knows what will happen) - then GNE Management have gone all out to show their true colours and wash their dirty laundry in public without an ounce of embarrasment. Clearly when you're branding a bus for a North West recruitment policy in the North East it shows how little care the company has for their staff (other than management) in the North East.

Drivers are rightly angry at the way they are being treated and until management change their approach, i can't see an end to this dispute, and even when it is resolved I think we'll see a mass exodus once back pay is sorted.
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Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
RE: Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
Go North East - 2023 Pay Deal and Industrial Action
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages