We're backing Bristol's Bus Drivers First Group made £204.3m in profit last year. Shareholder dividends were up by 45%. Yet, bus drivers have been forced to take industrial action to get the pay rise they deserve. The main sticking point in negotiations is First Group’s refusal to back date their drivers’ pay rise in full. Backdating it would cost around 0.15% of First Groups’s yearly profits. Doing so is clearly affordable and reasonable. Without our bus drivers, Bristol would grind to a halt. These strikes are causing severe disruption to Bristol’s workers. Senior management need to get back to the negotiating table with Unite and give our bus drivers the wages they have earned.

🤝 Pay Bristol’s bus drivers what they deserve

📣 Our statement

New lift could finally provide step-free access for station Network Rail have submitted plans to Bristol City Council for the project

🚆 Thanks to Labour Mayor of the West of England, Helen Godwin, Lawrence Hill station is (finally) getting step-free access.

🌹 Very welcome news - we've been pushing for this for years.

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📣 NEW: More night bus routes are coming to Bristol

🚌 Over 116,000 people work in our night time economy - they deserve to be able to get home safely

✅ We're pleased to deliver on our campaign

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New children’s homes in Bristol left empty for almost a year There are almost 100 children from Bristol in care far away from the city, costing the council millions

🚨 BREAKING: "New children’s homes in Bristol left empty for almost a year despite staggering costs"

🏘️ Under Green leadership, new homes are sitting empty - a bad situation for the children and costly for the taxpayer

📢 This needs urgent action 👇

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'Frustration' as city is slowest in England for SEND assessments One mum said the slow assessments for support were making children regress.

🚸 Prior to the 2024 local elections, 48.5% of EHCPs were completed on time

📉 After a year of the Greens running Bristol City Council, this month’s figure has dropped to 3% - and was even as low as 1% this February

👎🏻 Simply not good enough

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🌹 Just some of Labour's announcements this month:

💰 £20m funding for Hartcliffe
🚌 Free bus travel this summer for under 16s and £752m for transport in the West of England
🥣 Free School Meals expanded to 500,000 more children
🏘️ £39bn for affordable and social housing

Government announces 25 "trailblazer neighbourhoods" to receive long-term investment - details

🆕 Hartcliffe announced as one of the Labour Government's 25 new 'trailblazer neighbourhoods' set to receive long-term investment.

🌹 Labour is investing in Britain's renewal and delivering the change our communities need.

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Children to have free bus travel in west of England during summer holidays About 150,000 under-16s will benefit across West of England combined authority and North Somerset

🎉 Free bus travel for children and young people in the West of England over the summer holidays, thanks to Mayor Helen Godwin.

🌹 Labour is building the bus service that Bristolians deserve 👇

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Labour is massively expanding Free School Meals to half a million more children - including thousands here in Bristol - putting £500 back in parents’ pockets. That’s the Labour difference.

📢 The public have spoken. 71% of Bristolians want black bin collections to remain fortnightly

🚮 The Greens need to listen to residents, respect the results of the consultation, and rule out three-weekly collections

www.labourbristol.co.uk/2025/05/28/r...

Bristol's Labour group has a new deputy leader Carole Johnson has been a councillor for Horfield since 2024

🌟 Congratulations Councillor Carole Johnson, the Labour Group's new Deputy Leader

🌹 Carole is a fantastic councillor and has a wealth of experience she will bring to the role

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📣 Our statement on UKIP's march in Bristol today

Save Bristol's Libraries Libraries provide a crucial service to the city, not least for the worst-off. Our valued community spaces need to be protected and invested in. Libraries need more investment, not less. Sources: ...

✍️ Sign the petition to save our libraries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Bristol's Libraries Libraries provide a crucial service to the city, not least for the worst-off. Our valued community spaces need to be protected and invested in. Libraries need more investment, not less. Sources: ...

🚨 BREAKING: The Green / Lib Dem council have put library closures back on the table

📚 On Friday, they set up a new subcommittee that will be tasked with making the library service 'financially sustainable’, refusing to vote to rule out closures

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📣 Lovely to be back out speaking with residents across the West of England this weekend with MPs & campaigners from across the country

🌹 Many people we heard from will be voting for Labour candidate @helengt.bsky.social for West of England Mayor on Thursday 1 May

#LabourDoorstep

It has been a huge campaign - grateful to more than 12,000 people that signed the petition and backed us to get this unworkable proposal binned

They now say they won’t make the move “at this time”. That’s not enough, they need to rule it out for good 🗑

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Text reads: Greens forced to scrap plans for monthly bin collection after Labour petition reaches over 12,000 signatures. Text is overlaying background of rubbish

12,000 people signed our petition to stop the Greens’ plans for four-weekly bin collections.

They now say they won’t make the move “at this time”

However that’s not enough, they need to rule it out for good.

An image of Bristol Labour women councillors. From left to right: Susan Kollar, Kerry Bailes, Lisa Durston, Emily Clare, Ellie King, Katja Hornchen, Zoe Peat, Kirsty Tait, Carole Johnson, Kaz Self. Text reads: “Happy International Women’s Day, to our incredible councillors”

Happy International Women’s Day to our wonderful Labour councillors, elected to represent all the voices of Bristol.