WORKERS at Scotland's only bus manufacturer have gone on strike after pay talks with the firm's owners broke down.
The Unite union called on its members at Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) in Falkirk to take industrial action today after last-ditch negotiations broke down when management refused to meet the workers' pay proposals. A first wave of strike action will begin at 6am and will last until Tuesday 24th September, with an indefinite ban on overtime also in place.
Unite's regional industrial officer Lyn Turner said: "Unite went to ACAS in good faith and hopeful that common sense would prevail with the agreement of a 4% pay increase, a relatively modest sum given the company is revelling in record profits.
"Instead the justifiable expectations of the workers, the people who collectively transformed the fortunes of ADL only four short years ago, were met with arrogance and belligerence leaving us with no other option but to commence a first wave of strike action."
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