Glasgow opts out
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• Glasgow Corporation transport committee decided on Monday that it should opt out of the Federation of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers. It wants to withdraw from the national negotiating machinery in order to make local pay and productivity deals covering its fleet of 1,400 buses, the largest remaining in the federation.
In particular Glasgow wants to pay higher rates for Saturday afternoon
working and to meet the claim that one
Man bus operators should get a 25 per cent instead of 22+ per cent bonus.
Glasgow's move will further weaken the employers' federation which has suffered in recent years by the withdrawal of its most powerful members, Coventry, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool. The federation has tried to negotiate common terms for its 93 member authorities but last year's battle over the "frozen" El a week increases saw chaos develop with an increasing diversity of rates being paid.