Bus drivers across Merseyside are set to strike next week.
Arriva drivers from depots in Liverpool, St Helens, Bootle, Speke and Southport will take industrial action beginning on July 20, if the company does not improve its pay offer. The Unite union that represents the drivers recently branded Arriva's most recent offer as "pitiful".
In a recent ballot, 96% of drivers voted in favour of striking, rejecting the most recent offer of three per cent with no strings attached, or six per cent with sick pay reductions and loss of enhanced Saturday pay.
