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HUNDREDS of bus workers are to be balloted for strikes after rejecting pay offers at less than half of inflation.
About 500 members of Unite employed by French-owned firm RATP in London will vote in the next few weeks on whether to launch a campaign of industrial action.
The union warned that a strike would hit bus services across west and north-west London.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “RATP is a huge multinational company that can fully afford to pay our members a decent pay increase.
“RATP needs to stop dragging its feet and make our members a fair pay offer.”
Unite said that its members have rejected various pay offers of between 5 per cent and 6.4 per cent, which it said were below the RPI rate of inflation of 10.7 per cent.
The involvement of the controllers and engineers would leave no buses able to operate from any of RATP’s 10 garages, Unite said.
RATP has been contacted for comment.
