Busmen demand big o-m-o bonuses
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• A demand for high productivity bonuses for one-man bus operations was placed before employers at yesterday's meeting of the National Joint Council for the Passenger Transport Industry.
Unions representing 77,000 municipal busmen want well above the 22i per cent bonus suggested by the Prices and Incomes Board. Their demand is for at least 50 per cent of the savings from any extension of one-man bus operations. In addition, they want 10s a week bonus for one-man operations of ciOuble-deck buses.
Services in about 90 local authorities are covered by the claims which follow a yearlong "hiatus" on national discussions of oneman buses because the municipal drivers and conductors had their £1 -a-weekrises, agreed in December 1967, "frozen" by Mrs. Castle.
Most of them have since received backdated payments ranging from 180 to 1100.