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Big Municipal Pay Rise May Mean Higher Fares
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT
AORE than 70,000 municipal busmen n'l are to have an unexpectedly large increase in pay as a result of a unanimous recommendation made in London last week by the Wages Committee of the National Joint Council for Road Passenger Transport. Drivers will get an extra 14s. a week and conductors and maintenance men another 10s. 6d.
In the case of the drivers the extra money represents an increase of more than 6-3 per cent on the present basic pay of £10 18s. 9d. a week. For conductors and maintenance men the rise is in the region of 5 per cent It is clear that the employers' side of the council was influenced in giving such a large increase by the interim pay settlement made to London busmen as the result of the Phelps Brown Committee of Inquiry recommendation. This gave drivers up to an extra 15s. a week. The pay increases to railwaymen and road haulage workers no doubt were also taken into account.
The employers rejected the demand of the two unions, the Transport and General Workers and the General and Municipal Workers, for a 40-hour week; but they made a concession on holidays. They offered to give three extra days' annual holiday with pay to employees with five years' service. Up to now this concession has applied only to men and women with 10 years' service.
The committee's proposals are, of course, only recommendations. But there seemed little doubt that they would be endorsed by the full council when it met in London yesterday (Thursday). After that they would still have to be accepted by a delegate conference of busmen.
The settlement was estimated to cost the municipal undertakings an extra £2,000,000 in a full year—a large enough increase to warrant an urgent reconsideration of fares. An official of Glasgow's transport department estimated that the settlement would cost the corporation about £250,000 a year and would inevitably lead to another revision of fares. When fares were put up last October to cover an estimated deficit of £800,000 there had been a drop in the number of passengers using the bus services.
The municipal settlement is bound to influence the negotiations on behalf of 100,000 company busmen. Talks on their parallel claim are to be resumed later this month and an agreement on similar lines may be expected.