Long-service Pay Claim for L.T.B.?
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From our Industrial Correspondent
THLondon Transport Board, which rIched a pay settlement of 10s a week increase to its busmen only last April, is now to be faced with another claim. A delegate conference of London busmen agreed last week to submit a new claim for a long-service allowance.
The busmen will ask for an extra 5s. a week after five years' service with London Transport and further payments of 5s. a week for every five years thereafter. in addition they will ask for a third week's holiday with pay.
The busmen's leaders justify this new claim by London Transport's tabour shortage, which, during the four weeks ended May 14, worsened with the loss of 652 drivers and conductors. This decrease, which included 470 workers who left for other jobs, has brought the shortage to more than 1,000 drivers and conductors in the central area—the highest for two years. It is a high proportion of the total bus staff of 28,501 in the central area.
The union believes that a special allowance for long service would help to keep staff and stop them drifting into
better-paid jobs outside, But London Transport is not worried by the sudden drop in numbers, which they consider seasonal at this time of the year