(19 Oct 2022, 5:15 pm)Unber43 wrote Jesmond Strike is averted.

Unsurprisingly, all it took to get the union to change their stance that the depot closure would lead to a poorer service for passengers, was more money for the drivers.

The depot is still closing, and Arriva NE are presumably now even more likely to have to make some drivers redundant and make small service cuts than they were before, to recoup the cost of this deal.