{"id":465248,"date":"2025-10-01T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465248\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:02:22","slug":"night-bus-service-for-belfast-could-be-stalled-amid-translink-pay-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465248\/","title":{"rendered":"Night bus service for Belfast could be stalled amid Translink pay row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Transport unions accuse bosses of failing to engage in talks since June\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transport unions may stall night services for Translink due to a row over pay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f75726e2-436e-4007-bf8b-844d112d4c01.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Transport unions may stall night services for Translink due to a row over pay<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Public transport unions have warned they will refuse to engage in formal talks on Belfast\u2019s new night mover bus service, due to launch next month, until Translink settles a long-running pay claim for Platform Grade staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a strongly worded letter sent on 26 September, the GMB and Unite unions accused Translink management of failing to engage with a pay claim submitted back in June, saying discussions have yet to begin despite repeated approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transport unions accuse bosses of failing to engage in talks since June Transport unions may stall night services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1249,1144,83169,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-465248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-kurtis-reid","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-translink","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115297867936570104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465248","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=465248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}