Arriva Strike

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RE: Arriva Strike

(22/10/2017 20:55)507022 Wrote:  Wasn't the demise of Crosville in Liverpool (in the 1980s I think) also the result of a dispute/strike?

The crosville strike in Liverpool was a disaster for the company in the long term, crosville gained a lot of tendered work so needed extra buses quickly, what they could get was past its best & some drivers refused to work them, a driver got suspended & union called immediate walkout, management met with staff & managed to agree to get it resolved but within days staff were out on strike again So crosville closed the depot & sacked all staff, sad as a lot of drivers they had taken on didnt want to strike, crosville only lasted 3 more years before it was broke up,
There was another strike in 1990 at wrexham for crosville wales which also was a disaster for both sides, no cw buses ran in wrexham for weeks, all drivers sacked & depot closed, the wrexham drivers went mad when crosville chester started operating to wrexham, it took crosville wales years to recover in wrexham as independent operators had a field day filling in routes especially wrights of wrexham, wrexham depot was huge & because of this i think did maintenance for various depots including oswestry, after the closure some wrexham routes were run by mold depot until the depot they have now was fully operational, in meantime oswestry had become remote so by 1992 oswestry & abermule transferred to mindland red north, if any of this is wrong please correct me, thanks