Boxing Day Bus Services

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

RE: Boxing Day Bus Services
Is it possible that the union at Bootle have some sort of agreement in place prohibiting the workforce there from working Boxing Day hence the depot remaining shut, as opposed to operating Green Lane's routes alongside its own removing the necessity for Green Lane to open? The fact that Green Lane's drivers are unlikely to be type trained on the deckers would then also provide reasoning as for why the Bootle deckers are not utilised.

I believe the rail unions have that agreement in place (whereby nobody works Boxing Day) which, alongside the fact the Christmas period provides an opportunity for engineering works to take place on a closed network, secures the fate of the rail services at these times.