Since 1993 when deregulation has occurred on London buscrews and the break-up of the company into 5-6 parts wages have fallen by 40%, work has become an allshift procedure spanning 7 days and labour turnover reaches in many companies an astonishing 40% whilst wages do not surpass 15,000 sterling.

The T&G which helped Major ram through deregulation under the guise of efficiency and productivity called a rally today in Parliament to highlight the effects of deregulation and to the disparity in wages with the Tube drivers.

Anyone who has been on a London bus notices that the crews are now globalised ie they re recruited from anywhere in the EU or out of it and they have impossible work timetables.

Livingstone understanding that the private sub-contractors would pull out privatised half the roads in London creating bus lanes for buse and private taxis creating traffic jams on an immense scale.

The experience of the London bus crews which are now deregulated and essentially non-unionise hence they cant even hold a one day strike is the future of all public services in London. This is the aim of corporate globalisation in a nutshell.
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