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Bus drivers on the picket line at the RATP garage in Fulwell yesterday morning
‘OUR STRUGGLE is getting stronger, not weaker. There is a deep determination amongst the membership. The more mischief from management, the more they try to demonise us and the union, the stronger it makes us,’ striking bus driver and Unite member Tom Meldon said on the picket line at Fulwell Garage in Twickenham yesterday.
Drivers employed by the French government-owned bus privateer RATP at five London garages were taking their ninth day of strike action against £2,500 pay cuts yesterday and are jubilant that colleagues from two more garages will be joining them on their tenth day of strike action next Thursday.
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A lively picket outside Hounslow bus garage early yesterday morning – they are out again today
‘WITH these private companies running London’s buses it’s a race to the bottom – the only way to stop it is to renationalise London Transport,’ Steve Stockwell, Unite Regional Officer, said on the picket line outside Hounslow Bus Garage yesterday morning.
2,200 Unite members went on strike at eight London garages against £2,500 pay cuts imposed by the bus privateer RATP yesterday, with some remaining on strike today and tomorrow, and further action planned for later this month and next.
Drivers on picket lines called for the entire bus network to be renationalised and put under public ownership.
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