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Jumping the gun?

15th September 1967, Page 66
15th September 1967
Page 66
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

LARRY SMITH, the TGWU's plain-speaking passenger officer, was hugely amused last week at the Trades Union Congress when pay rates and cost of living and the PIB were uppermost in the minds of most delegates. "Do you realize," he asked me, "that the municipal bus undertakings have actually invited us to submit pay proposals on September 21? In the present context, this beats the band."

"What are you going to press for?" I wondered. "£15 as a national minimum", said Mr. Smith.

Of course, the municipal bus employers do have urgent staff recruitment problems in some areas. But many may feel it would be more appropriate to wait until the PIB has had its say on bus workers' productivity.