TRANSPORT union Unite demanded an integrated public-transport system and minimum standards for Scotland's transport workers at the Scottish TUC conference on Wednesday.
Unite regional secretary John Quigley told congress that the Scottish National Party government in Holyrood had "spectacularly U-turned" on its 2007 manifesto commitment in support of an integrated system.
The SNP received donations of £625,000 from right-wing transport tycoon and Stagecoach owner Brian Souter in the run-up to last years' Holyrood elections.
"In the interests of the Scottish people, we need an integrated public-transport system and Scotland's transport workers must have minimum working standards to improve the difficult conditions they are being forced to work under," Mr Quigley stormed.
The union said that there was still dissatisfaction with unreliability and a lack of services on key routes outside of peak hours in many areas of Scotland.
Unite called for increased pay and final salary pensions for transport workers and increased access to training and learning, plus an extension of Scotland's laws on protection of emergency workers to include transport workers.
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