(24 Oct 2022, 7:57 am)BackJammer wrote Unlikely to be a successful strategy.

The rail unions are barely making an impact on the people they need to sway (ministers), and rail workers have the advantage of genuinely being able to ruin the lives of their customers in an effort to get a pay rise.

Stagecoach Sunderland passengers have plenty of alternatives, including quitting their jobs and going on the dole, and the directors of Stagecoach surely don't care if a hotchpotch of strikes merely adds to the existing pile of reasons (sickness, shortages, congestion) that they're not really to blame for the unreliability of their services.

Only an indefinite strike will work, and even then, I don't rate their chances.

Far more likely that Stagecoach is just going to start cutting back until the resources they can reliably call on, can match their timetabled commitments. The directors might even get a boost from that, since on paper, in terms of fleet age and thus reliability/profitabiliity, it will look like Sunderland is one of the better units.