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Confidentiality NOT guaranteed

By The Basa ⋅ August 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It looks like Lothian Buses will get the ballot they asked the union for but in a bit of an unorthodox way. By that happening the the confidentiality that Pilmar Smith, the company’s Chairman, promised his drivers will go out the window because of extremely bad planning.
It seems that all of the drivers who received […]

Lothian Buses - The Secret Society

By The Basa ⋅ August 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that this morning’s revelation by the Glasgow Herald (click here) is not the only secret at Lothian Buses. Lothian Buses is a public limited company (plc) and it seems the only thing public about the company is the way it keeps pulling in the profits.
Trying to find out any information at […]

It’s an all out strike on Lothian Buses

By The Basa ⋅ August 1, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

EdinburghSucks!com breaks the news again - Council-owned Lothian Buses will start the all out strike next Tuesday. After the second meeting which took place tonight the drivers voted for the all out strike action.
The vote for the action was not 100%. At this morning’s meeting 2 drivers voted against, and at tonight’s meeting […]

Lothian Buses Chief ghostwriting?

By The Basa ⋅ July 31, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Rumours abound that Lothian Buses chief executive may be increasing his income by ghostwriting for the Evening News. Various papers shown to us over the weekend clearly show that Gareth Edwards’ article in Friday’s Evening News seems to have pretty much have been written by Renilson the power hungry, council installed puppet at Lothian […]

Dirty Tricks Campaign

By The Basa ⋅ July 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

According to mail arriving at EdinburghSucks!com over the weekend, there is a dirty tricks campaign going on between the city council and the drivers at their almost wholly owned bus company Lothian Buses.
“what you read in the paper on Satuarday is a lot of crap. I can tell you that this story was brought […]

Seemingly it’s not the 5% or 6.15%

By The Basa ⋅ July 19, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The current industrial action taking place on Edinburgh’s buses is being publicised by the council leader as the drivers not taking a 5% rise but demanding 6.1%. However, today’s Evening News has the TGWU spokesman Peter Williamson said he was sorry that it was the public who had to suffer.
Mr Williamson added that […]

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