Belfast Bus Driver Attacked

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday May 29, 2003 12:09 by Sean Smyth - independant socialist

Once again a Belfast City Bus driver has been assaulted.

Translink and the union ATGWU and some of our elected representatives will be interview they will cry about the vicious attack on a innocent driver, they will claim that some service’s may have to be with drawn.

This is a typical and expected response after all words a cheap.

Over two years ago I made Translink the ATGWU,” GS Bill Morris, Joe McCusker and chairmen of both Ulsterbus and Citybus branches John Coffey, Davey Glover, Northern Ireland Health and Safety Executive and all the political party’s in Stormont aware of a plan introduce by Dublin Bus in 1996 following a report by a working group establish by the minister for justice Mrs Nora Owen T.D.

It was called the Edinburgh plan, the main body of the plan was
(1) Drivers on longer handled cash “it fell into a secure box which the driver has no control off” this action would prevent robberies”,
(2) Improved cab security better protection for drivers
(3) Better communication between the police, street cleansing department, local resident groups, Translink management, and the trade unions.

Translink and the union are serious about preventing attacks on drivers they should be calling on the security minister Jane Kennedy to establish a task force that should include all of the above and to fund it's findings.

This morning Thursday 29th May on radio Ulster John Coffey chairman of the citybus drivers union ATGWU threaten the withdraw of buses in working class community’s in Northern Ireland as a result of these attacks.

Why, these thugs and hoodlums are not from the working class community’s.
The working class community’s do not support these thugs why do the ATGWU want to punish the working class instead of attacking the scum who attack public service workers

Talk is cheap, the drivers want action not crocodile tears.

Sean Smyth