(01 Oct 2023, 8:17 pm)Andreos1 wrote In which case, every single tax payer in Northumberland needs to know that the already financially challenged council, is paying additional money, to cover these routes.Surely the question is, why would the council pay GNE for services they aren't running on strike days?
I sincerely doubt the claw back will cover the additional costs incurred over this period.
These are the very same routes that would be still being run, if it wasn't for the abject failure of the operator, in sitting down or listening, to find out why their proposals aren't acceptable to the vast majority of the driving staff.
The answer is, they won't be. So they can afford to pay for partial replacements, which are free because they can't be registered in time.