Bus drivers wanted the living wage to be implemented and for drivers to be back-paid to July 1. Photo: ODT filesFrustrated bus drivers have attended a regional council meeting, demanding to know the whereabouts of their promised wage increase. First Union organiser Sonja Mitchell thanked Otago regional councillors for supporting the living wage for bus drivers mid-last year, but asked, "Where is it?". Bus drivers wanted the living wage to be implemented and for drivers to be back-paid to July 1. Earlier this month, transport manager Garry Maloney said the council still intended to introduce the living wage, but was waiting until a contract was re-tendered and awarded with a living wage component before it negotiated with operators of its other existing contracts to also include the living wage.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 14, 2021 16:34 UTC