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I never noticed Tommy the [edited by admin] said that . That may be the official T& G policy but at grass routs level, I am with Frank Field on this . They do nothing for the workers at the bottom, only keep wages down . Here in Liverpool we have hundreds of Polish bus drivers. Not one of them can speak anything like reasonable English, some one is going to die, they will have a accident on their bus, they will not be able, to even phone an ambulance or police, they wont even know where they are .Why when Liverpool has thousands out of work, do the bus company recruit from Poland Its simple as a work force they are like scared sheep, don’t go sick ,they do loads of overtime. Well you would, because the crap wages they get here are like earning over 1400 pound a week in Poland. Tommy the [edited by admin] and the rest of the T&G want to start thinking about the people they are supposed to represent . Not feed the world at our expense . streetcars.

I've always been concerned about the conflict of interest between the bus section of the T&G and their Taxi Section. I wonder which side would be victorious if the Government tried to implement legislation that further encroached on the traditional passenger base of Taxis? We've seen the invention of so called Taxi buses and flexible transport, I believe there is more in the pipeline. The people best placed to exploit these changes I speak of, are our natural competitors, bus companies.

It should be remembered that in this day and age buses don't only travel along bus routes they also form long queues likened to Taxi ranks, waiting for the public at concerts, night clubs, football venues, exhibitions, etc etc.

They act like taxis and no one gives a chit. They are not policed by their own enforcement officers and I have only ever read of one bus operator being prosecuted for illegaly plying for hire. And that particular incident concerned bus registration which had lapsed and nothing to do with what we understand as plying for hire.

Section 19 of the 1985 Transport act covers buses plying for hire but you will be hard pressed to find a prosecution under that section or any of our own taxi legislation?

Regards

JD

I wonder what the G M B branch secatary thinks of this statement by Tommy the leading T&G rep in Liverpool? Does he agree with him? or not . streetcars.