Sunday service ban

18th September 1970, Page 120

18th September 1970

Page 120

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Keywords : Tyne And Wear, Gateshead, Tyneside, Passenger Transport Executive, Labor

• Employees of Gateshead and District Omnibus Co Ltd have banned services across the Tyne into Newcastle on Sundays. The services are covered by the Gateshead company and the Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive, and employees of the latter have been refusing to work on Sundays. This has caused disruption of services, and Gateshead and District employees claim that they are being abused by passengers for the interference with services although it was not their fault. The Gateshead men contend that by banning cross-river Sunday services they are preventing more serious trouble.

Mr Hurst, director of operations for the Tyneside PTE, said there had been a steady improvement in Sunday attendance at work, but Mr George. Carr, an official of the TGWU, claimed that there had been no improvement in Sunday services provided by the PTE, and there was no guarantee that there would be.

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