Yorkshire bus drivers to go on strike
It's amid a dispute over pay
Hundreds of bus drivers and engineers in Yorkshire are to go on strike amid a dispute over pay, threatening disruption to services.
Members of Unite, employed by Arriva, will stage an indefinite walkout from June 6, after being offered a 4.1% pay rise.
The union said that was far below the inflation rate, which is now in double figures.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "Arriva is part of a multi-billion company. It has no business demanding that workers get by on pitiful low pay so that its boardroom can get ever-richer. Arriva can easily afford to pay decently - it should do just that, or face industrial action.
"Unite's members, like all workers, are being pummelled by the cost-of-living crisis - they cannot and will not accept a real-terms pay cut. Unite will be giving our members its full and total support until this dispute is resolved."
Unite regional officer Phil Bown said: "Strike action will inevitably cause significant disruption and delays for the Yorkshire travelling public, but this dispute is entirely of Arriva's own making.
"Our members are already suffering from poverty pay and the company is trying to make the situation even worse."