TGWU URGES GATESHEAD CREWS TO END STRIKE
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A"RETURN to work call" was made this week by the TGWU to 365 drivers and conductors of the Gateshead and District Omnibus Co. Ltd. who came out on strike on Monday. And general manager Mr. J. Forster was optimistic: "I'm very hopeful that they will be back at work this week," he said.
The Gateshead crews warned last week that they would refuse to work across the Tyne into Newcastle until March 1, when their latest pay award became operative. This, they said was because the municipal employees earned more.
The company issued an ultimatum that any employee who did not work into Newcastle faced dismissal. And when it suspended a driver, the unofficial strike began.
Said Mr. Forster: "The crew duties involved in the cross-Tyne services have always been the subject of consultation and agreement between the management and the men and the interruption of their normal working . . . is contrary in every way to the obligations into which they entered."
The TGWU evidently agreed.
DIMMED HEADLIGHTS PLEA
LIVERPOOL Corporation road safety subcommittee is to ask the city transport committee to specify dimmed headlight units for new buses. It was said that this had not yet been done because it was considered that there was additional extraneous light from the lower and top decks of the vehicles.