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-IILE ASLEF was doing its best ruin the railways over the crosanct eight-hour day, stern Counties busmen at ig's Lynn changed their daily ift from 6hr 40mins to 9hr min. But they reduced the )rking week from 40 to 39 ,urs over four days instead of c.
Now they earn £120 for four ys instead of £105 for six days, than increase of 19p per hour,
d £45 for working on a rest y. They also do no more than ie spreadover duty in a week
d have six consecutive days F in every fifth week. That's at comes of kicking old habits ■ d applying common sense to e job.
With supreme irony, train ivers who went on strike lainst a flexible working day, lich would allow the week to reduced from 40 to 39 hours, ter threatened industrial action :cause flexible rostering was being introduced quickly and idely enough.
They have much in common ith the men — nearly all ased-shop trade unionists in Alan life — in the secret ilitary unit that I was immanding in the Far East at e end of the war. It was so !cret that I was unaware that ar with Japan had ended until I ad about it next day in a ;wspaper.
I called the troops together Id told them that they could we the day off in celebration, ley didn't want the day off. 'hy not?
"We want it yesterday like feryone else," they said illenly.