Why Are We on Strike?

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There are two issues: Le East Yorkshire and Corporation buses share routes in the town - but wages and bonuses are agreed separately for the two Undertakings. Hull Corporation have agreed to a 32% pay increase and long service - E.Y.M.S. REFUSED TO EVEN TALK ABOUT IT! The E.Y.M.S. have tried to impose extra work on these share routes on the bus crews. Routes where E.Y.M.S. crews would be getting up to 30/- a week LESS than Corporation crews for identical work. For six weeks we have been telling the Management - NO INCREASE in this work until you negotiate about the pay for it. FAIR WARNING - but the Management was so indifferent to BOTH your inconvenience and our conditions that they didn't even arrange to discuss it AMONG THEMSELVES until 9th Nov. They still sought to IMPOSE these services - knowing the deep-seated feeling of the crews. 2s Most people travel in the peak hours. Some of our members are requixec to work these three spells during the day - but though they sie 2t the disposal of the Company for 11 hours of the day, they -ve only paid the 74 hours worked. MANAGEMENT again are trying to INCREASE these unpopular duties - but REFUSE TO NEGOTIATE hen - as far as they are concerned bus crews are objects that make buses go = to be used and discarded as the Company feel fit.