Mr. Peter Williamson

Peter Williamson, chair of the Lothian Buses branch of the Transport and General Workers Union said: "Strike action is always the last resort, and not a first, and we just feel we have come to the end of meaningful negotiations.

"Management have given us a deal, but the conditions attached to that we feel are making our employment conditions worse and we are not prepared to accept that," he said.

Peter Williamson, the chairman of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said he would make the first move if management at Lothian Buses failed to come forward within 48 hours.
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Mr Williamson said most people showed their support to their drivers during the strike day on Monday.

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 drivers had to deal with drug addicts and assaults on a daily basis and though more money wouldn't make these things right, it would help recognise the "huge responsibility" accompanying the job.He said that so far they'd been offered a five per cent rise "with strings", such as putting single deck bus work on established bus routes.

If these strings were removed they would very likely accept the rise, he said.