{"id":2506,"date":"2014-12-17T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2014-12-17T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:15:22","slug":"busfeed-five-reasons-london-bus-drivers-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"BUSfeed: Five reasons why London bus drivers have had enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>1. People are mean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1.-People-are-mean.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2507\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1.-People-are-mean.gif\" alt=\"1. People are mean\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that four bus drivers are assaulted every 24 hours? They even have to carry a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Spit Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to collect the DNA of passengers who spit on them *shudders*.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00c2\u00a0Bosses are meaner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2.-Bosses-are-mean.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2508\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2.-Bosses-are-mean.gif\" alt=\"2. Bosses are mean\" width=\"496\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the Conservative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sold bus routes off to private companies, working as a bus driver is complicated. There are now 18 different bus companies operating with 80 different rates of pay. Some bus drivers are being paid as much as \u00c2\u01412 more an hour than a colleague driving the same route.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>SIXTY hour weeks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/3.-60-hour-weeks.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2509\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/3.-60-hour-weeks.gif\" alt=\"3. 60 hour weeks\" width=\"490\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because of this unfair pay, many bus drivers have no choice but to work up to 60 hours a week to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Tube drivers have it so much better<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/4.-tube-drivers.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2510\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/4.-tube-drivers.gif\" alt=\"4. tube drivers\" width=\"490\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life is better underground. Tube drivers have one employer and one rate of pay, making everything fairer and simpler. They also earn up to \u00c2\u014130,000 more than London bus drivers and have no need for a spit kit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Patience is wearing thin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/busdriver1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2511\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/busdriver1.gif\" alt=\"busdriver1\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pay disparity and unfair treatment is starting to really bring our bus drivers down, causing tension and low morale. Strike action is always a last resort but patience is thin and the bus drivers have had enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bus drivers keep our City running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and Unite continue to campaign to get them a fair single rate of pay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/news\/london-bus-drivers-in-strike-vote-over-farcical-pay-disparities\/\">The ballot for strike action<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0will close on\u00c2\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1245841361\">Thursday 18 December<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. People are mean Did you know that four bus drivers are assaulted every 24 hours? They even have to carry a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Spit Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to collect the DNA of passengers who spit on them *shudders*. &nbsp; 2.\u00c2\u00a0Bosses are meaner Since the Conservative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sold bus routes off to private companies, working as a bus driver is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[194,193,136,192,88],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"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=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}