BUS DRIVERS STRIKE * UK - First drivers plan 24-hour strike action on the same issue in August

Bus passengers in south-east England face disruption as hundreds of drivers plan to strike in a dispute over pay

London,UK -BBC News -10 Sept 2008: -- Metrobus and First services in London, Sussex, Kent and Surrey will be affected by the 24-hour strike, which begins at 0300 BST on Friday... Members of the union Unite want a standard £30,000 rate of pay for drivers across the bus network... Metrobus said it had made a "good" pay offer and that it expected a number of drivers to work as normal... (Photo: First drivers took strike action on the same issue in August)