LONDON—About 2,500 bus drivers from six depots across East London went on a 48-hour strike November 20. The workers are protesting a wage freeze imposed by the East London Bus and Coach Company for the coming year. The strike comes after a 24-hour stoppage at the same depots the previous week.

“There are 350 of us at this garage and the strike is completely solid,” said Paul Williams, the UNITE union branch secretary on the picket line at the depot in Bow. Strikers cheered as Williams announced that no Route 25 buses had left the garage that day. Workers at the garage originate from different countries, including Poland, Pakistan, Ghana, and Ireland.

—HUGO WILS AND ROSE KNIGHT