White-collar • Bus__ Workers Claim £35
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CLA1MS for an increase of £35.a. year in the ,pay of .adult clerical,' iupervisory, administrative and technical staff_ and, pro . rata , rates . forjunior grades, in bus undertakings, were last week submitted to individual managements by the National and Local Government Officers Association and the Transport and General Workers' Union.
The claims propose that the increases should be retrospective to the first full pay period following November 10 last, which was the week in which the recent pay award to municipal busmen became effective.
The series of disputes with bus companies now being declared by the two unions will not be affected by the claims.. The third in this series—with Crosville Motor Services, Ltd.. (The Commercial Motor, November 18)— will be heard by the industrial Disputes Tribunal in London on January 13.
Birmingham Transport Department has awarded drivers and conductors an increase of 14s. a week-3s. more than the national award, by the National „Point Industrial Council for the road passenger transport industry (The Commercial Motor, December 9). The award is equal to the increase recently granted to platform staff by.the London Transport Executive. The Birmingham undertaking resigned from the N.J.I.C. a year ago after criticism that it had made awards above the national rates.
B.RS, " COMPLETE MONOPOLY," SAYS MR. WALKER
IF allowed to retain 8,000 vehicles I instead of 3,000, British Road Services would have a "complete monopoly" of the lucrative trunk services, stated Mr. H. L. Walker, a member of the national councils of the Road Haulage Association and the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, when he addressed Tees-side and South-west Durham Chamber of Commerce.
He• was concerned to find that,. broadly, chambers of commerce and trade favoured the retention by B.R.S. of A substantial number of vehicles. Many men, he said, had put large
capital into road transport as a result. of the 1953 Act,
24 COMETS TO CARRY COAL
TWENTY-FOUR Leyland Comet forward-control tippers, to carry coal. direct from the face • to the customer, have been 'ordered by Burnett and Hallamshire Fuel, Ltd., one of the largest fleet operators in the north. Deliveries are made to power stations, factories and cOal'inerchants.
At opencast coal, sites the vehicles ' have sometimes. to haul through axledeep mud, and it is considered that the new.100 b.h.p engine now fitted to the Comet will prove valuable.