Cleaners to take buses off the road

Meanwhile, other outsourced workers who are employed to clean and refuel buses for First Bus in Glasgow and Aberdeen are also set to strike in a dispute over pay. Over 100 cleaners, fuellers and shunters employed by Bidvest Noonan on contracts in the two cities, members of the Unite union, have rejected a 2% offer backdated to 2022 at a time when RPI inflation has hit 13.4%.

Wages at the company currently start at £9.62 per hour, far below the £10.42 per hour that will be the national minimum wage from April.

On strike days in March buses in the area may have to be taken off the roads for safety reasons and because of the lack of recharging/refuelling.

Wendy Dunsmore, Unite industrial officer said: “The 2% offer backdated to last year is totally unacceptable to our members.”