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‘He earns £100 less a week but we drive the same route’
FROM 3am the strikers began arriving at the entrance to Stagecoach’s sprawling Leyton Green depot in east London.
Cavernous halls usually filled with the roar of revving engines and diesel fumes were near silent as dozens of pickets began their shift.
Lines of darkened buses loomed out of the shadows — only nine of 130 were driven out by a handful of scabs.
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