Fiji bus drivers continue with pay negotiations
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Pay negotiations are continuing in Fiji between bus drivers and the government.
It follows a nationwide bus strike that ended just two hours after it began.
Members of the Bus Operators Association agreed to return to work after interim prime minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, committed to take part in an inquiry to look at the bus operators' concerns.
On Wednesday, the association rejected the interim government's offer of a direct subsidy of 10 per cent, saying it was not enough to cover their losses resulting from inflation.
The general secretary of the Bus Operators Association, Chaitanya Lakshman, has told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat program, Commodore Bainimarama was instrumental in getting the bus drivers to go back to work, but the dispute has not yet been resolved.
