Bus drivers and supervisors who work for First Group and Metrobus are
going on strike tomorrow - at First Group they're striking for 48
hours, at Metrobus for 24 hours. The strike has been called by the
Unite union (the result of the 2007 merger between Amicus and the
T&GWU), who "want a standard £30,000 rate of pay for drivers across
the bus network" (so says the BBC webpage linked to below).

A list of the affected routes can be found on TfL's website here...
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravel...s/default.html

....and on the BBC London webpages here...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/..._feature.shtml

I don't know whether either company will attempt to run any of their
services using non-union staff - running a skeleton service on certain
routes might be a recipe for more of a disaster than not running a
service at all. Any resources could I suppose be concentrated on
running a



P.S. Been absent from usenet for quite a while (not even lurking),
though I must admit for my sins that I crept back to uk.railway before
I came back here - my excuse is that there's so much going on in the
arena of transport in the metropolis lately (though isn't there
always) that I was wary of getting sucked into some kind of utl black
hole!