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lOs rise for busmen expected
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from our industrial correspondent
• Britain's 77,000 municipal busmen are expected to get new pay rises of 10s a week later this month—only weeks after most of them got "lump" sum payments of up to £80 at the end of a 12-month freeze on their December 1967 pay increases.
Talks on the new increases are taking place in a working party of the National Joint Council for the Passenger Transport Industry. Both employers and unions are anxious to find a formula which will be acceptable under the Government's prices and incomes policy.
The unions submitted a claim for 10s-aweek bonuses last month to cover the acceptance of one-man bus operations—but the employers insist that this concession was "bought" in the last pay settlement.
It is now likely, however, that the new rises will be tied to local productivity deals (incorporating, among other things, one-man buses) which will be the major source of further savings to the 90-odd municipalities involved.
Productivity guidelines, similar to those recommended in two Prices and Incomes Board reports, could be agreed by the National Joint Council and payments of the increases would then be related to the introduction of productivity measures at the local level.
The Ministry will clearly be watching closely to ensure that genuine productivity concessions accompany the busmen's next round of increases.