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Union campaign against 'cowboys'
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LOCAL authorities in North Wales have been asked by the Transport and General Workers' Union not to award school bus service contracts to independent coach firms which do not employ 41-time staff, or pay approted wage rates.
The union's Wrexham district secretary, Mr Jim Morris, has already written to several councils on the issue. He has reminded them that Crosville Motor Services Ltd, a National Bus Company subsidiary, employs a staff of some 1,400 and that if the councils decide to operate their own school services or' to award the contracts to independent operators the livelihood of some of these people could be jeopfrdised. s A okesman for the TGWU told CM on Friday that the union was also 4orried over the sarety aspect of certain independent operators' school services. "These firms," said the spokesman, "employ what we call 'cowboys' — drivers who already have full-time jobs."
It has been alleged that such part-time drivers could be working a full night shift at a factory and then taking out school service coaches in the morning.
Commenting on the situation, a spokesman for the PVOA in London said: "This is not exactly the first time such a thing has happened. We have received no complaints from our members and if we do we would look at the legal aspects. However, the PVOA cannot intervene in industrial matters."
Mr Morris and a representative of Crosville are expected to hold meetings with the councils involved in the near future.