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Stagecoach staff to strike for 12 days over 'divide-and-rule' pay tactics

Stagecoach staff to strike for 12 days over 'divide-and-rule' pay tactics

RE: Stagecoach staff to strike for 12 days over 'divide-and-rule' pay tactics
(30 Oct 2021, 8:11 pm)Dan wrote It does seem like Unite’s ambition is to have Arriva Northumbria, Go North East and Stagecoach all participating in industrial action at the same time. I’m in favour of trade unions fighting for better pay and conditions for their members (and in turn the wider workforce) but I’m not sure it sits right with me that industrial action is seemingly being coordinated and there’s a dispute over money that the companies simply do not have at this time.

It's the most effective way to apply leverage with industrial action, so they'd be mad to not coordinate it. We saw with Arriva two years ago and Go North West more recently, that when its not coordinated, other operators couldn't be quicker to 'help out' with strike-breakers. If any one of the big three went out alone up here, we all know they'd be straight on the phone to the other two to lend a hand and to try and undermine the strike

In regard to companies not having the money. Something has got to give, because we've had over a decade of wage squeeze now, where we've seen wages fail to keep up with inflation and the private sector will continue to plead poverty unless forced into it.

The Govt has quite rightly increased NLW to £9.50 (6.60%) from the new tax year in April, giving it a rate of growth of 31% since 2016.

At what point do you tackle it? The classic line during any industrial action is usually that it'll cost jobs etc, but if its allowed to continue, then in another 10-15 years time, people literally won't be able to afford to work in these jobs anyway. Draw a trend line with the rate of inflation and the decline in wages and that gap keeps getting bigger.



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(30 Oct 2021, 11:10 pm)Driver9*** wrote I was in the Unite union and I've recently left after 20 years in it. Complete waste of money. The main rep gets a piss easy ride in return for towing the company line. Gets paid 41 hous a week for 15 hours of actual work, paid until 4pm and leaves for home at 3pm every day.

If that's the case, why don't you just change the rep? Its a democracy after all.

I've been a rep for the majority of my working life and have stood election every single year. I'd be more than happy for someone else to take it on, if they fancied a go at it. At least I'd get some of the countless hours of my own time back that the role inevitably spills over into!

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(30 Oct 2021, 5:54 pm)DeltaMan wrote It's the usual PR rubbish from both sides. Similar to Unite not quoting the actual financials from Busways Travel Services as it won't sound as good but it more pertinent...
The press release wars are often the worst part of any dispute. I'm interested in these figures though, because I can only see the May 2020 figures on Companies House and they still show a pre-tax profit of £8.5m at a glance.

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RE: Stagecoach staff to strike for 12 days over 'divide-and-rule' pay tactics