One driver said, “All the big companies made profits over COVID. The government is investing in things we don’t need, like going to war. We’re in a war here with our circumstances.”
Workers can expect the same merry-go-round of divided strikes, cancelled actions and endless pay offer ballots year after year getting poorer in real terms all the while until they begin to take action into their own hands.
Kinetic workers are again taking industrial action over pay and conditions, concerned that the Transport Workers Union is about to strike another rotten deal with the global bus conglomerate.