124p.c. for London busmen will cost £5m
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• A new pay deal giving London Transport's 23,000 busmen a 12+ per cent rise was accepted on Wednesday.
A 70-garage delegate meeting voted 64-6 for the deal, resulting in £2 10s. a week more immediately, and another £1 later in the year. It is estimated that the total cost of the pay rise will be £5m a year.
Drivers' basic rates rise from £18 5s 6d to £22 and conductors' from £17 8s 6d to £21 3s, taking into account consolidation of existing special payments.
In the autumn the present efficiency payment scheme will be replaced by a new individual bonus scheme, based on receipts and expected to average at least 18s a week more for employees. Those on the busiest routes will get substantially more. Average rostered earnings, including bonus, will then reach £26 for drivers and £25 for conductors. The driver of a flat-fare bus will then get an average £29 10s.
On Monday a wage agreement involving some 5500 London Transport bus maintenance workers was approved by a TGWU delegate conference. Fully skilled mechanics will receive an extra £2 1 1 s. a week and unskilled general hands £2 3s. 6d.—increases of about 111 per cent.