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Free Bus Services In Western Sydney Thursday & Friday To Make Up Fo TWU Strike on Monday - Daily Telegraph/ Mount Druitt Standard
Bus commuters will be happy to travel free on Thursday and Friday, to compensate for a bus strike on Monday, this coming week, in Western Sydney. Whether the community will appreciate this on Monday morning is yet to be seen. Bus drivers will have their reason for striking, of which I may know of a few of the. In the last couple of years, there is less shift breaks and the biggest thing is the bus drivers KPI* is trip times being cut down to to more efficient times.
Now with the recent introduction of the Opal, traveling will be cut as bus commuters just quickly swipe their card and sit down immediately. There is no fiddling of money or loose change (wasting 5 minutes or more), when the bus could be down the road picking and dropping off more commuters.
Here is the story from Mount Druitt Strandard/ Blacktown Advocate to Daily Telegraph:
BUS
commuters will be traveling for free on Thursday and Friday in western
Sydney and the Central Coast ahead of a strike on Monday, following
failed negotiations between the Transport Workers’ Union and Busways.
It
is the second strike since Friday when union members stopped work,
inconveniencing 50 per cent of services across the regions between 10am
and 2pm. It came two days after members refused to sell tickets and turned off Opal ticket machines, offering commuters free travel. But, unlike the stop-work action last week, the strike on Monday will affect the peak morning rush hour. Busways and the union had a meeting this morning, which TWU NSW official Nimrod Nyols said was unfruitful. “They are not interested in changing their position,” he said. “I provided them with a 72-hour notice of work stoppage on Monday, August 29 from 5am to 9am.”
Bus services will be disrupted on Monday, August 29.Mr Nirmod said the union planned to communicate with schools about the disruption.
“We have had no interest from Busways to stop the strike,” he said. “The last thing our workers want to do is disrupt services. But we feel we are out of options.” Busways said “the industrial action affects the traveling public and does little to resolve the alleged issue”. But in a statement a Busways spokesman said: “The
actions taken by members of the TWU will have a limited impact on
services as only 35 per cent of permanent employees are union members.” * Key performance indicator
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