Six Weeks of Strike Action By Stagecoach Drivers Begins as Pay Dispute Continues

Todays, Monday 9th June Marks the begining of six weeks planned strikes everyday by over 400 Stagecoach West Scotland drivers from Ayr, Kilmarnock & Ardrossan depots over a long running pay dispute.

Services across Ayrshire will run a very limited service daily for 6 weeks or until the dispute is resolved.

The Unite Union has said the action planned is due to the company not improving on the 4% offer from last November with 98% of drivers voting for strike action, Unite says drivers where originally asked to fund any payrise by working longer hours, taking longer unpaid breaks and losing a week of annual leave, unite has called this unacceptable.

Stagecoach Said:

"Unite the Union has confirmed plans to take industrial action on Friday 6 June and from Monday 9 June, daily for up to 6 weeks. As a result, there will be disruptions to our bus services on these days."

"Industrial action will take place over driver pay for our employees based at depots in Ayr, Ardrossan, Arran, and Kilmarnock."

"Regrettably, the industrial action will disrupt our services and inconvenience our customers. As we play a crucial role in helping people stay connected with their communities, we plan to operate a limited service with the drivers available to us."

"We’re working hard to minimise the impact of this disruption, but unfortunately, the limited services we’re running will affect customers travelling in and around Ayrshire.

We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding."

Stagecoach has also said that any pay offer has to preserve the viability of services across Ayrshire.

The Limited services operating are:

Services	Routes	Timetables
1	Kilmarnock to Priestland	Download here
4	Ayr, Kilmarnock, Glasgow	Download here
11	Kilmarnock to Ardrossan	Download here
14	Ayr Hospital to Irvine	Download here
52	Ayr to Bellsbank	Download here
58/60/358/360	Stranraer to Ayr	Download here
X76	Kilmarnock to Glasgow	Download here
X77	Ayr to Glasgow	Download here
321/322/323/A/324	Isle of Arran	TBC