BRSL clerical claim —yes and no
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• Following a meeting of the NJNC on Thursday of last week. the Association of Technical and Supervisory Staff has accepted the offer of increases made by BRSL on. behalf of clerical and technical grades. It is understood that the executive council of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association has decided not to accept the BRSL offer.
The ACTS acceptance is conditional upon an agreement that, in the ' event of developments outside the control of the NJNC affecting the salary scales of other NFC companies, further adjustments to certain of the BRS scales may become appropriate, and there will be early joint examination of the position in that case.
The July 8 meeting took place after ACTS had sent a telegram to TSSA stating that, unless a joint date for a meeting could be agreed. ACTS might have to accept the management offer independently. This followed (CM July 2) an earlier difference of
opinion between the two unions on the reaction to this offer.
Meanwhile protracted management/ union talks have continued on pay claims for NC L and Freightliners Ltd staff. The TSSA national 'executive met last weekend to consider a revised offer from the employers, but decided not to accept it and instructed the negotiators to seek fresh terms.
Mr Percy Coldrick, TSSA general secretary, is quoted in the July issue of the Association's Journal as follows: "The going has been really hard. All the way through we have been faced with managements who are very conscious of th9 need to offer to the Government some progress towards the viability of the undertakings in order to retain the subsidy provided for under the 1968 Transport Act. We are only too well aware ourselves that this is a permissive subsidy and not an automatic one.
"However, we have taken the view that it is unfair to expect our members, in turn, to subsidize NCL and Freightliners. The contribution of our members towards what we hope will result in the viability— and stability—of these two undertakings is co-operation in schemes designed for increased efficiency and practical economies."