A BUS strike that threatened to throw a city centre into chaos over the weekend was called off because of a legal technicality.
It follows a ballot of First bus employees in York last week, in which a revised pay deal was rejected by 132 to eight.
However, drivers were told that the strike, planned for Saturday, could not take place because the management had not been given the required seven days' notice of industrial action.
Therefore, officials from the Transport and General Workers' Union were forced to call it off.
On Friday, drivers rejected a pay deal that would have see their wages rise to £7.60-an-hour by April 2005. They are demanding £8-an-hour to bring their pay in line with drivers in other areas.
Strikes are still planned for later in the week.
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