List of all the buses not running in Liverpool as strikes begin today

Stagecoach bus drivers in Liverpool begin strike action today - meaning a number of services in the city will not be in operation.

Drivers and workers from the bus company are taking part in industrial action in a row over pay. The strikes had been called off after an improved offer from Stagecoach - but Unite union members voted against accepting it.

This means that the strikes are back on and get underway today.

The drivers and other Stagecoach workers will walk out today, Monday, June 24 and tomorrow, Tuesday, June 25, with Stagecoach operating a limited service from Gillmoss depot on these dates.

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Stagecoach services 10A, 14, 53, 82, 86 in Liverpool will not operate and a special timetable will operate on routes 17, 19, 20 and 21 between 6.30am – 19.30 on the strike days. Stagecoach’s other bus depots in the area will be unaffected by industrial action and services 1/X1, X2 & 471/472 will operate into Liverpool as normal.

Stagecoach will also operate the 917 shuttle services for those attending the Pink concerts on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 June, to meet requests from the Liverpool City Region and Merseyside Police.

Details of the special timetables will be published shortly on Stagecoach’s website at www.stagecoachbus.com/regional-service-updates/merseyside-and-south-lancashire.

Stagecoach is also warning that there may be some knock-on disruption to bus services on Wednesday June 26 whilst operations return to normal.

Unite members are seeking a wage increase that better reflects the hourly pay rate of other operators in the area, but Stagecoach say that its rejected offer brought it considerably closer whilst retaining more favourable employment terms, conditions and benefits than others offered.

Matt Davies, managing director of Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire said: “We have done our utmost to propose a pay deal that meet the expectations of our people whilst also being affordable for the long-term sustainability of our bus network and worked with Unite to achieve and offer that they recommended. I am sorry for the disruption that this strike will cause for our customers.

“Our improved offer was a very fair and well above-inflation pay offer. It would have given our employees a much higher percentage pay increase, at a time when inflation has fallen to 2.3% and looks set to fall further”.

Responding, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "Stagecoach can fully afford to offer our members a fair pay increase and it has so far failed to do so.

“Stagecoach’s workers undertake an incredibly demanding and challenging job and must be paid fairly. Unite will be backing our members to the hilt in their fight for better pay."

Unite regional officer Brian Troake added: "Stagecoach is a major player in Merseyside buses and it must reflect that in how it pays its drivers, without whom they wouldn't have a bus service."

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