Supertram driver

Status Not open for further replies. Joined 16 Sep Messages Stagecoach Supertram are now advertising for external tram drivers to join the company. This is a 4 stage application process, and once passed you will be placed into the talent pool of drivers.

RailUK Forums. TO New Member. Joined 11 Jan Messages 4 Location Yorkshire. Could I have some further information please? Do they recruit often for this? Is there overtime readily available? What are the pension contributions?

Joined 24 Nov Messages 3, Location London. Last edited: 12 Jan Rockhopper Member. Meanwhile, First Glasgow has cancelled a number of bus services in the city due to driver shortages. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues.

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This scabbing operation was effectively given a free hand by Unite. At the same time, Stagecoach used its national bus fleet to organise a replacement bus service for the Tramlines music festival. This was advertised more than a week in advance. Buses ran from 7 p. Both Stagecoach and First bus drivers have themselves struck this past year—in Leeds, Cumbria, Merseyside and Aberdeen—over low pay.

What will our action be next? He explained the paltry demands being pursued by Unite. But Unite, the largest union in the UK, with 1. On their own admission, the wage increases they are advancing in Sheffield are paltry, but they are just as fearful as the company of any struggle that unites tram, rail and bus workers for decent pay and conditions. To take forward the struggle at Stagecoach Supertram, workers in Sheffield must urgently form a rank-and-file committee, independent of the unions, and appeal for support from tram workers at Manchester MetroLink, and bus drivers and rail workers across the country.