EMPLOYEES REFUSE TO WORK SPECIAL OVERTIME A DISPUTE concerning working hours
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of Huddersfield Corporation's bus drivers and conductors is being taken before the National Joint Industrial Council's Emergency Committee, which has been asked to investigate an application by the Huddersfield branch of the Transport and General Workers Union for a revision of the employees' working hours in favour of straight shifts, as against split shifts.
Pending such an investigation, the employees decided at two meetings last week to continue their recently imposed embargo on the working of special overtime—that is, overtime necessitated by the operation of special buses for football-match traffic and transport of work people, as distinct from overtime required for operation tinder the • ordinary schedules.
A statement issued by the passenger transport committee says that the .recent large volume of voluntary overtime was caused entirely by a 'shortage of staff. It is the department's practice to incorporate all scheduled journeys into the rota of duties, so that, when all vacancies are tilled, there is no need for Overtime, except in periods of heavy sickness All work is done in accordance with the national agreement on schedules.