{"id":600922,"date":"2025-11-29T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600922\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T08:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:26:25","slug":"translink-unions-to-ballot-staff-on-substantial-and-positive-pay-offer-ahead-of-potential-christmas-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600922\/","title":{"rendered":"Translink: Unions to ballot staff on \u2018substantial and positive\u2019 pay offer ahead of potential Christmas strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<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\">New package could be enough to head off industrial action over festive period, but scepticism still remains over new night services\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Translink workers on the picket line during a strike in 2023.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/99819ebc-5ef7-4e66-90e1-73d308e34f4d.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)\">Translink workers on the picket line during a strike in 2023.<\/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)\">Unions are preparing to ballot Translink workers on what has been described internally as a \u201csubstantial and positive\u201d new pay proposal.<\/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)\">It follows the Belfast Telegraph reporting earlier this week the company had tabled a fresh package during negotiations aimed at averting industrial action over Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 New package could be enough to head off industrial action over festive period, but scepticism still remains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[84491,1249,1144,83169,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-600922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-for-infrastructure","9":"tag-kurtis-reid","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-translink","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115632039268967199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600922","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=600922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}