(06 Jul 2021, 9:49 pm)Storx wrote Go North East bus drivers are moaning about wages which could potentially lead to strikes but you turn it onto Arriva as usual.

As a customer, I'd rather have a bus company with 10 year old totally adequate buses on, which turns up, than a bus company with brand new buses sitting in a depot somewhere because their drivers are on strike.

Just for transparency and balance, Arriva’s pay ballot results were on 1 July and 81% of their drivers rejected the 1.5% pay deal offer. 87% have said they’d be willing to strike over this.

Stagecoach have also rejected their pay offer of a 1% pay rise (although they had a 2% payrise last year as part of a two-year deal, so is actually 3% between the two years).

So unfortunately Arriva’s 10 year old bus mightn’t turn up either.


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