By Jonathan Silberman March 15, 2021
LONDON Striking bus drivers mounted a lively picket at London’s Park Royal depot here Feb. 22-24. They are fighting wage cuts of up to 2,500 pounds ($3,500) a year and longer shifts. Some 2,000 drivers took strike action. They’re members of Unite union at three companies, London United, Sovereign and Quality Line.
“They’re taking advantage of the pandemic,” picket supervisor Rupert Buchanan told Andrés Mendoza, Communist League candidate for London mayor, who visited the picket Feb. 24.
“This is happening in different workplaces across the country,” Mendoza replied. “On Friday, I shall be taking solidarity to striking gas engineers in Sidcup, Kent. They face cuts to wages and conditions, as well as being sacked if they don’t sign up to worse contracts.” On hearing this, Buchanan wrote out a solidarity message for Mendoza to take to the gas workers, and organized for
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