Bus Strike Talks Resume
Transport bosses will be getting round the table with union leaders today, to try and prevent more bus strikes. Drivers are planning two 24-hour walkouts in a row over Olympic bonuses.
Transport bosses will be getting round the table with union leaders today, to try and prevent more bus strikes. Drivers are planning two 24-hour walkouts in a row over Olympic bonuses.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson arrives at the Fleet Street offices of law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, to meet the transport secretary Justine Greening MP.
He is there for a business forum, where he will warn companies "not to chance it" when they come to their Olympic travel plans.
Unite members, who are calling for an Olympic bonus payment for bus drivers, have been staging a protest outside the building.
Transport bosses have stumped up another £5m to try to settle the row over Olympic bonus payments for bus drivers before tomorrow's strike.
Bus workers in the capital are set to stage two new strikes in a dispute over an Olympic bonus payment.
Staff in Transport for London's travel information and call centres will walk out for 24 hours in a dispute over a bonus for the Olympics