UK: Bus workers to join pay revolt
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy July 24th, 2008 in GeneralFrom Socialist Worker…
Hundreds of thousands of workers across Britain are fighting for decent pay, and bus workers in London are set to join them. Workers have resoundingly kicked out pay offers at most of the major bus companies.
This raises the prospect of London-wide strikes taking place on the buses for the first time in many years.
Bus workers were set to take their campaign to the capital’s Tory mayor Boris Johnson on Thursday of this week with a march on City Hall.
With living costs rising and Gordon Brown determined to hold down wages, pay is becoming a burning issue for millions of workers in the public and private sectors.
Public sector unions are building towards major strikes in the autumn.
More than 600,000 local government workers struck for two days over pay last week.
They could follow that up with a three day strike in the autumn. Scottish local government workers are due to announce the result of a strike ballot which could see action as early as August.
Some 12,000 Network Rail workers are set to strike this weekend over pay and conditions…
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