Wage Cut Claim for Arbitration

13th November 1953, Page 63

13th November 1953

Page 63

Page 63, 13th November 1953 — Wage Cut Claim for Arbitration

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A MEETING of the National Council I-% for the Omnibus Industry, representing company bus undertakings and the unions, decided in London last week to refer to a conciliation committee the employers' proposal to reduce employees' wages by 7s. 6d. in the event of the _Minister of Transport restrictingthe number of standing passengers (see last week's issue of The Commercial Motor).

Municipal undertakings were expected to place a similar proposal before the unions at a meeting yesterday.

Feeling is said to be running high among employees about the time being taken over negotiations on their claim for increased pay Wand improved conditions. The current issue of the Transport and General Workers' Record says:— " It has been suggested that certain companies may insist on separate arbitrations being taken in respect of each company. We shall resist that proposal to the full. Company bus workers are entitled to the stability which the National Council can give. We are not prepared to depart from the principle of national negotiations and have informed the employers forcibly of our point of view.

• "The employers again, in this case, have intimated that they are unable to concede our claim either wholly or in part and steps are being taken to ensure that this difference is dealt with through the machinery of arbitration."

The Record said that, meanwhile, men must continue to work normally.

The municipal employees' claim has, as reported in The Commercial Motor on October 30, already been referred to the Industrial Court.