Pressure on First bosses as Bristol bus strike ends - but longer strike planned next month

Bristol’s first major bus strike for a generation ends tonight, but the two sides seem further apart than ever, and a second longer strike is looming , after a day of noisy protest in the heart of the city today.

Scores of striking bus drivers gathered in The Centre with whistles, horns, bells and some in fancy dress, as they turned their depot gate picket lines into a protest by the Cascade Steps near the Hippodrome all day on Friday.

Only around 30 per cent of CityLines buses were running again today, Friday, September 19, after a fourth day of walk-outs in a dispute over backdating an agreed pay rise in full. Pressure on First Bus bosses grew after the drivers’ union Unite said its members h

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