NBRU PRESS RELEASE

NBRU to Ballot Bus Eireann Drivers for Industrial Action over anticipated Expressway changes.

General Secretary Dermot O’Leary said:

“staff at Bus Éireann have been overloaded with information coming at them sideways over recent months through constant negative references to the future of the Expressway model. Rumour, innuendo and comments from managers in relation to impending changes to Expressway is not an acceptable method of consultation, furthermore, our members are not prepared to become pawns in a political game of ‘not doing anything’ that would cause upset to a sitting Government pre an election”

Mr O’Leary went on to say:
“our members are not going to stand idly by and allow their livelihoods and those of their families become second best to political considerations, the continuous issuing of licences by the National Transport Authority, which conflicts with the NTA’s own guidelines, is having the effect of making the Bus Market unsustainable, the fact that the Government is allowing this to continue unchecked will not be lost on the CIE Groups 9500 plus staff, their families and communities, some of who rely on Bus Éireann for work and social needs, particularly when it comes to their own political selections at election time”

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