{"id":10782,"date":"2016-12-08T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10782"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:08:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:08:05","slug":"people-before-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10782","title":{"rendered":"People before profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Campaigners for better buses took to the streets of Dundee today (December 8) calling on Holyrood to bring services back under public control.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nMembers of Unite Community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dundee branch set up street stalls asking citizens to back the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Haud the Bus campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Haud the Bus is looking for public support for a petition calling on the Scottish Parliament to re-regulate Scotland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s buses, and to look at the benefits of bringing them back under public control.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recent research for the union found that Scotland could save \u00c2\u014151m\u00c2\u00a0a year if buses were re-regulated, and \u00c2\u014176 million a year if they were brought back into ownership by local councils.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bSince the buses were deregulated under Margaret Thatcher, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen higher fares and services being cut,&#8221; said Unite Community member Michael MacGregor. &#8220;We know that in Dundee that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left many pensioners unable to get to the shops or pay bills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe need bus services that put people before profit, and the first step is for people to support Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Haud the Bus petition to the Scottish Parliament.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, dozens of Dundee citizens turned out for a public meeting with representatives of Bus Users Scotland, Stagecoach, Xplore Dundee and Dundee City Council, raising concerns about service cuts in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the campaign and\u00c2\u00a0sign the petition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/how-we-help\/listofregions\/scotland\/scotlandcampaigns\/haud-the-bus-campaign-page\/\">here.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners for better buses took to the streets of Dundee today (December 8) calling on Holyrood to bring services back under public control. &nbsp; Members of Unite Community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dundee branch set up street stalls asking citizens to back the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Haud the Bus campaign. &nbsp; Haud the Bus is looking for public support for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[193,90],"wps_subtitle":"Campaigners say it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to 'haud the bus'","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10783,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions\/10783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}