Arriva Strike

[Bevan Price]

RE: Arriva Strike

(15/11/2017 19:33)Barney Wrote:  In 2010 Arriva was acquired by DB, the German state-owned transport provider. Since then, this organisation has transferred its profits back to Germany to help finance that country's public transport system. It doesn't seem fair to me that the staff who help create these profits are being vilified in some quarters for striking for a reasonable pay award.

Yes - it probably isn't fair - but it is also the reality and the only change is likely to be service cuts when profits decline due to the strikes. I don't know where the story came from, or if there is any truth in it, but earlier this week, another passenger on my local Arriva route (St. Helens 37) asked me if I had heard any stories about its future.

And (sadly) redundant former Arriva drivers sat at home, wondering how to pay the bills whilst hoping to find jobs with cowboy bus operators, or changing into lorry drivers.