Union is planning Citybus march
UNIONS intend to make November a month to remember to prevent the sell-off of Citybus.
On November 7, Unite Deputy General Secretary Jack Dromey will visit the city to speak and meet with opposers at the City Bus Social Club.
The meeting, at 2pm, will see him lend his support to the campaign to halt the sale of the bus service by Plymouth City Council.
Following on from the rallying visit protesters say they will hold a number of events to highlight their campaign, including street stalls in the city centre to raise the awareness of the public.
Mark Baskerville, Unite Branch Secretary at City Bus said recently: "We had 20,000 signatures on the petition and 350 people at the public meeting.
"The public are behind us and the politicians need to remember they are up for election in May."
The campaign will culminate in a march through the city centre followed by a rally outside the Guildhall on November 28.
Clayton Roberts, Unite regional organiser, said: "The sale of City Bus is about more than people's jobs.
"As a union we will protect our members but who will protect the public from a poor bus service and increased fares?"
3 Comments
by mark cornelius, Hartley Vale
Wednesday, November 04 2009, 8:54AM
“Am I the only one here that thinks everyone is missing the point. ??? 350 people turned up to the meeting you say, not many considering the size of Plymouth?? I have been using First services 15 and 17 in the last few weeks and they are far superior in everyway, particularly reliabilty to Citybus, and seem very popular which is more than can be said for Citybuses incursions into Plymstock and Saltash!! If Citybus are wasting tax payers money running double deckers around Saltash for 2 people to use, the quicker they are sold to a proper business the better I say!”
by johnno, pennycomequick
Tuesday, November 03 2009, 7:07PM
“Selling City bus , selling parts of West hoe park , selling parts of Central Park to build houses on ,
and local elections in May ,
good bye Pengelly”
by Hermes (and Thelemia), Just another bench, Bretonside, Plymouth
Tuesday, November 03 2009, 6:04PM
“You question the takings of my resourced school bus?
Then it must be apparent Plymouth Council has gone bust?
Morally banktrupt I mean; do march our childrens legs in weary?
Do you leave any in unwield to be wheeled alone? Yet friended Plymouth?
Gather in; I have news to bring in advance themed thing in Autumn:
Council leave my willed Plymouth in rust?
Where carried and cared for are all Plymouth brethren in trust?
How sings out our ancestral anthem "In God we trust"
Good God, Council, have you unlistened to everything ever seen and forever heard?
Where travels in friendship, via all routes birthed in any end of Eden?
What wisdom shares when friends bring all to my Lady's Lorded temple? A single no return?
Sisters, Brothers, Fathers, Mothers:
May I beg of you our kind minded breath of all forgiven oxygen
Guardianed a Council of brethrened that which is best?
Wisdom, Wisdom, Wisdom, Council? Wisdom? Have all the stares and the reasons in all wisdom left say all of I?
You dare to ask to time? Asks a child when next bus?
NO SALE CITYBUS
How brings Winter? Spring? LOVE ICIS
In speech::
There are several incidences with the illegally proposed sale of Plymouth Citybus which rhyme of corruption, nepotism, mis-management, and general lack of legal procedure. Spending nearly a half-a-million on valuation so far, with a further million planned; can only cream-off the small profit which would be returned to Plymouth public funds if sold, rather than the half-million profit Citybus earns per year being invested in Plymouth Citybus standing. If the sale goes badly in casket, will ALL the profit from the sale have already been spent lining private pockets from public money; this is especially distasteful given the recent high-profile news concerning poor management of public funds.
The strange manner in which privedged information is leaked between unrelated members as indicated by stories in The Evening Herald is worring; how are these people otherwise connected? Are abuses of power occuring between closed secular groups? A conspiricist might wonder if fellows of groups such as Freemasonary are involved; given the level of coincidence most would wonder if they drink at the same bar at least. Given recent blatant manipulations by the Council in ignorance of planning procedure, West Hoe Park etc as example, and perhaps the Athenaeum; the licensing handling of Dance Academy delayed to continue the long-held fools plan to close and demolish, to bulldoze through self-guided plans of an unknown archaic soul; and of course th wholesale development around Sutton Harbour is in complete breach of long-held and deeded trusted regulations, such as height-restrictions for waterside developments, often at the expense of pushing out local fishermen, who, one might envisage are descended in archetype of Drake's captained Armada crew, who anon in all held Plymouth's defence.
Given Plymouth Corporation Transport was conceived in Plymouth brethren; in sworn will of witnessed Victorian Founders; a right defended in priveledge by all who sent their families to war in the first half of the previous century- and any who stayed in church in support yet abstinence; in order such that every Plymouth person, young, old, or infirm, would have free safe access to transportation around The City of Plymouth and beyond.
Importantly: A major undeveloped asset of Plymouth Citybus stands as Bretonside Bus Station. Given its prime location between the Harbour developments and the Mall; would any sale subsequently result in a later sale of the land for retail development, failing to return publicly owned funds to Plymouth Citybus; and instead lend itself to profiteering via the aforementioned 'closed' clubs: birthed in pyramidic hierarchies of power, control and manipulatilation. As they are. Bowls?
A few years ago, there was a plan to progress the Council into open planned offices to prevent abuse behind closed-office”