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Transport Union Keeps the Door Shut

25th March 1966, Page 41
25th March 1966
Page 41
Page 41, 25th March 1966 — Transport Union Keeps the Door Shut
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

BRITAIN's largest union, the Transport and General Workers, has refused to budge from its view that the Prices and Incomes Board inquiry into busmen's pay is unwarranted interference with collective bargaining.

The refusal came when leaders of six unions representing 100,000 men in conntryowned services throughout Britain met to discuss the union's boycott.

The 16-man union team on the busmen's bargaining committee voted against giving evidence to the Incomes Board. But a move in favour of co-operation was defeated only by the majority vote of the TGWU, which has most members on the committee.

It is now left to individual executives of the other five unions to decide whether to abide by the vote. They are the National Union of Railwaymen, the General and Municipal Workers' Union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Electrical Trades' Union and the National Union of Vehicle Builders. The only union apart from the TGWU with a substantial membership is that of the railwaymen, the NUR. If it decides against an individual submission no very great weight can be attached to the evidence presented by the others.

It was the railwaymen who led the opposition to the vote when the committee met. They argued that the busmen's case for higher pay was unanswerable and nothing would be lost by stating it. However, they were severely critical of the report of the Incomes Board on rail pay and they may not attend the bus hearings.

Formal memoranda are due by this week, but if' the NUR decides to go ahead it could give oral evidence.

The unions are still hoping formally to present a claim while the question of London, municipal and company rates are being examined, but no meeting with the employers has yet been arranged.

Higher Bradford Fares; Bradford Corporation has been granted fares increases to take effect from April 3. General manager of the undertaking, Mr. E. Deakin, said that the only alternative to higher fares would be a pruning of services. The increases would bring in about £167,750 and there would be a surplus in a full year of £12.410.


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