Liverpool busmen strike
15th March 1968, Page 48
15th March 1968
Page 48
Page 48, 15th March 1968
— Liverpool busmen strike
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• Despite appeals by Liverpool Corporation and the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, 3,400 bus drivers and conductors staged an unofficial strike in the city this week in support of a 23s wage increase. Country buses operated as usual but stranded passengers in the Corporation area were not picked up.
Liverpool Corporation—which leaves the national employers' organization shortly— negotiated a local agreement with the union in January. This agreement, along with similar deals arranged at Belfast and Glasgow, was referred to the Prices and Incomes Board recently and the Board's report is expected in mid-April.
It is Understood that the corporations involved will not pay the increase without Government approval.