***UPDATE*** Agreement reached - services building back up The transport strike which crippled Geneva yesterday will continue today - and it will be worse.
Unions decided to continue the strike today during a meeting yesterday afternoon, saying there have been no meaningful offers from the company.
Workers are demanding index linked pay rises to counter the cost of living.
The TPG say services today will be fewer than yesterday as they haven’t had a chance to bring in an emergency timetable. The company says it takes ten days to make such arrangements.
Strikers and their supporters marched through the centre of town yesterday afternoon. Around 1,000 gathered on the Place de Neuve to hear speeches from union leaders.
Yesterday other public service unions also took action – but they will be back at work today.
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