Go bus drivers in Tauranga are stopping work for two hours tomorrow morning, in a move expected to disrupt some services.

About 30 bus drivers are attending a stop work meeting with First Union representatives between 9:00am and 11:00am to discuss their contracts.

Eleven of the 30 drivers are rostered to work during the time of the meeting and have voted to take strike action to attend, says union co-ordinator Lousia Jones.

The union gave Go Bus more than three weeks' notice for the meeting but the company failed to arrange cover, says Louisa.

'It's a shame the company wouldn't work with us to allow members to attend these once yearly meetings” says Bus Drivers First spokesperson Rudd Hughes.

The behaviour is what they have come to expect from Go Bus.

'Go Bus is a very hostile company to deal with” says Rudd. 'Their low-wage operating style has driven down pay rates in the industry”.

The union is in wage negotiations with Go Bus for around 150 of the company's employees. The union has been critical of Go Bus for its role in the wages being slashed for hundreds of drivers' in South Auckland.

Go Bus is also one of the targets of a union campaign called Bus Fair. The campaign is calling for councils to adopt ethical tendering processes when putting bus contracts out to the market.

Go Bus has been contacted but management was unable to respond when SunLive called.