Before any member has cast a single vote on the deal proposed to end the national dispute on the surrender terms offered by the CWU leadership, it is being treated as an accomplished fact.
Drivers were scathing of the deal and spoke angrily of Unite’s collusion with the bus operators.
Cesar Augusto Cardenas was just 46 years old. He had worked at the garage for more than 20 years.
Despite the preventable deaths of 35 London bus workers, a new wave of infections has struck, with information about garage outbreaks deliberately concealed in the interests of “operational efficiency”, i.e., profits.
Rossi’s claim that Unite can be made accountable has burst like a soap bubble, but all they can offer is more of the same, promoting the chimera that the trade unions can be reformed.
Unite’s response to the overwhelming strike mandate was to scurry without delay into the government’s Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS).
The ballots show the willingness of drivers to fight but Unite’s “consultative” ballot campaign is a fraud.
There is nothing remotely “independent” about University College London’s review into bus driver deaths.
