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LT staff shortage goes to Minister

27th July 1973, Page 50
27th July 1973
Page 50
Page 50, 27th July 1973 — LT staff shortage goes to Minister
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• A joint deputation from the Greater London Council and London Transport this week took the increasing problem of staff shortages on London's buses and Underground to the Minister for Transport Industries, Mr John Peyton. Mr Jim Daly, vice-chairman of the GLC's transport committee, said before the Ministerial meeting that the Council wanted the Government to relax its freeze regulations to allow higher pay for London busmen.

Mr Daly, deputizing for committee chairman Mrs Evelyn Dennington who is ill, also said that the eight-man delegation would press for a speeding up of the procedures necessary to implement bus priority measures. Meanwhile LT has issued a notice to bus passengers on the staff shortage crisis. The notice, now being posted in most buses, draws attention to the labour problems faced by all service industries in London. It "very much regrets" that full services cannot be run at present and says that "every effort" is being made to recruit crews. It ends by hoping that the situation will improve after the holiday season.

The GLC-LT move comes against a background of an eight-point Transport and General Workers' Union plan for improving busmen's conditions. These include: a national minimum rate of £25 per week; a 35-hour week, a seven-hour day; four weeks' annual holiday; public holidays on new year's day and May 1; a maximum spreadover duty of 12; a four-hour maximum spell of duty; and an overtime agreement based on a 12-hour maximum.