{"id":9247,"date":"2016-07-12T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2016-07-12T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:08:42","slug":"under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9247","title":{"rendered":"Under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite has said that Transport for London (TfL) has a duty to find employment for the 400 Routemaster conductors who face losing their jobs and that there must be no compulsory redundancies by TfL and the 18 bus companies that operate in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bLondon buses are a success story and the network looks ready to expand with an increasing population \u00e2\u20ac\u201c therefore, there should be plenty of jobs available for the 400 conductors, said Peter Kavanagh, Unite regional secretary for London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is no way that these conductors should be made the scapegoats because of the vanity project of Boris Johnson when he was mayor,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite will be holding talks with London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deputy mayor for transport Val Shawcross at city hall on Thursday (14 July) to strongly make the case that, with the success of London buses and a growing population in the capital, jobs should be found for the conductors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe individual operator cannot be allowed to claim there are no replacement jobs within their own company,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Peter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will be having talks with the deputy mayor for transport Val Shawcross on Thursday where we will be seeking a pan-London solution to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite said that the conductors should not be made scapegoats for \u00e2\u20ac\u0098the vanity project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the last mayor Boris Johnson who insisted there should be conductors on the new Routemasters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTfL and the bus firms have a strong duty to find alternative employment for the conductors, whether being retrained to drive a passenger carrying vehicle (PVC) or in another suitable role,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Peter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will not countenance compulsory redundancies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our bottom line,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has said that Transport for London (TfL) has a duty to find employment for the 400 Routemaster conductors who face losing their jobs and that there must be no compulsory redundancies by TfL and the 18 bus companies that operate in the capital. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bLondon buses are a success story and the network looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[202,126],"wps_subtitle":"Routemaster bus conductors face losing their jobs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247"}],"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=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9248,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions\/9248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}