{"id":18140,"date":"2019-05-30T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18140"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:27","slug":"first-bus-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18140","title":{"rendered":"First Bus sell-off announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite, \u00e2\u20ac\u0098won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tolerate a single job loss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at First Bus, as the parent company FirstGroup announced today (May 30) that it intended to sell-off its bus operations in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has about 15,000 members working for First Bus, one of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest bus operators.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI want to make it crystal clear that Unite won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tolerate one single job loss or any attack on our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 terms and conditions as a result of this sell-off process,&#8221; said Unite national officer for passenger transport Bobby Morton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOn one hand, FirstGroup has praised staff for their hard work and commitment and then, in the next breath, it announces it is selling off First Bus because of so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0098limited synergies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 between the parent company and the bus operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a slap in the face to the dedication that our members show on a daily basis in all the weathers that the British climate can throw at them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf any potential buyer for any of First Bus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 operations in the UK thinks that there are rich and short-term easy pickings at our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 expense, they will need to think again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe regard bus services as a public service for the travelling public and not a vehicle for heavyweight corporates to squeeze the last ounce of profit from bus services.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite will be holding a meeting of its First Bus reps from across the UK in London on June 11, when First Bus executives will be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite, \u00e2\u20ac\u0098won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tolerate a single job loss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at First Bus, as the parent company FirstGroup announced today (May 30) that it intended to sell-off its bus operations in the UK. &nbsp; Unite has about 15,000 members working for First Bus, one of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest bus operators. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI want to make it crystal clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"First Bus sell-off: Unite 'won't tolerate a single job loss'","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25246,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions\/25246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}