London bus cuts: Bosses did not think of ethnic minority staff, MP says

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'Bus drivers and the wider workforce worked throughout Covid on the frontline and rightly received our thanks and applause.'

Transport bosses have failed to consider the impact of planned bus cuts on its large ethnic minority workforce, a Labour MP has claimed.

TfL said it does not have a legal duty to look specifically at how cuts will affect staff because the workers are directly employed by individual bus companies.Among the 16 bus routes set to be lost are the Number 12 and Number 45, which go through Elephant and Castle in Mr Coyle's constituency. Mr Coyle said: "Bus drivers and the wider workforce worked throughout Covid on the frontline and rightly received our thanks and applause.

 

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They should also have a pay rise and have more tangible benefits. Maybe un-privatise all transport services so that it is no longer about profits.

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