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Industrial court's no to LT inspectors' claim
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from our industrial correspondent • The Industrial Court has ruled against a claim by 2,800 London Transport bus inspectors and supervisory staff for an increase of £13 a year in their salaries.
The claim, submitted by the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, was to compensate for the loss of differentials arising from the introduction in January 1967 of a five-day forty-hour week for drivers and conductors.
It was argued that the implementation of the shorter week for platform staff led to an increase in their average earnings, as distinct from basic wages, while the earnings of supervisory staff remained stationary. The supervisors' differential over the drivers had been reduced by at least Ss a week and it was on this figure that the claim for £13 a year was based.
The case was considered by the Industrial Court in May. Its findings, published this week, are as follow:— (1) The court accepts the principle put forward both by London Transport and the unions that adequate differentials should be maintained between the earnings of the platform staff and the supervisors.
(2) The maintenance of adequate differentials should not, however, take the form of adjusting the earnings of the supervisors on every occasion when an alteration, however small, takes place in the earnings of the platform staff. (3) It is important to ascertain what further contribution to increased productivity can be made by the supervisors. This should be determined as soon as possible by the joint working party which has been agreed upon by the two sides.
(4) Having regard to the above considerations, the court finds against the claim as at present made. The court recommends, however, that the effects on the supervisors' differentials of the implementation of the five-day week for platform staff should be taken into account on the next occasion when, following a substantial change in the rostered earnings of the latter, consequential adjustments to the earnings of the supervisors are being negotiated.