Bus Eireann plans to ballot for strike

Staff at Bus Éireann who are members of the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) are to ballot for industrial action amid fears over a forthcoming strategic plan for the Expressway inter-regional coach service being drawn up by the company.

The chairman of the State-owned transport company Aidan Murphy told the union in a letter in recent days it was continuing to examine ways in which to reduce its costs “so as to deliver the profitability necessary to secure a viable future for Expressway”.