Bus drivers on Thursday obtained guarantees to hire three additional temporary workers to ensure safety on board the buses, as well as three others on permanent contracts.
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The unions of Tadao network employees obtained additional hiring and security means Thursday, February 4, during a meeting with management, after a bus driver was stabbed by a passenger in Avion, near Lens, Wednesday, reports France Bleu Nord.
Bus drivers suspended their right of withdrawal exercised on Thursday. They obtained hiring guarantees for three additional temporary workers to ensure safety on board the buses, and three others on permanent contracts.
Received by the sub-prefect of Lens and the sub-prefect of Béthune, the unions also say they have a “guarantee of increased presence of law enforcement at strategic points”.
The vital prognosis of the 45-year-old driver is not engaged, he has been operated on but is in stable condition. Around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, he was stabbed three times by a passenger who had not accepted the driver’s request to put out his joint inside the bus. Her attacker is still at large. The Béthune public prosecutor’s office, which has opened an investigation, did not want to communicate on this case on Thursday.