{"id":428209,"date":"2025-09-16T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428209\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:32:11","slug":"bristol-bus-strike-hundreds-of-drivers-walk-out-over-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428209\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol bus strike: Hundreds of drivers walk out over pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s behind the strike?published at 06:58 BST<\/p>\n<p>06:58 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/44be110b-78a1-4a83-a284-a6a9daf7d8ec.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Bea Swallow<\/strong><br \/>BBC News, Bristol<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The industrial action follows pay negotiations between First Bus and the Unite union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unite says drivers have faced below-inflation pay rises for the past three years and are now calling for a fair and sustainable wage agreement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The union claims the company has put &#8220;profits over people&#8221;, and &#8220;can afford to come back with an improved offer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First Bus says it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstbus.co.uk\/bristol-bath-and-west\/news-and-service-updates\/updates\/industrial-action\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;disappointed&#8221; by the walkout, external<\/a>, and insisted the latest offer on the table is the &#8220;full and final&#8221; figure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Negotiations are ongoing but no resolution has been reached yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Badgerline bus services, which cover the areas around the city, will operate as normal after drivers on those routes accepted the pay offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind the strike?published at 06:58 BST 06:58 BST Bea SwallowBBC News, Bristol The industrial action follows pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-428209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115212579586989186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}