Unions’ rural drive against restructuring of bus service

Unions representing Expressway workers are to travel to towns and villages to drum up the support of rural dwellers as they fight a planned restructuring of the bus service.

The union has warned that “as a last resort” it will engage in industrial action should the Bus Éireann force the changes on staff without agreement.

In letters to the Irish Rural Network and to TDs, senators and councillors Dermot O’Leary of the National Bus and Railway Union (NBRU) warned the restructuring will mean the “death of bus services” in small communities.