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TGWU not bound by PIB report
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T EADERS of the Transport and General J—e Workers' union told Mr. Ray Gunter, Minister of Labour, this week, that they were not bound by the recent Prices and Incomes Board report which recommended increases of 3 to 3+ per cent for 77,000 municipal busmen in the provinces, which was about half that put forward for the London men.
For the provincial busmen, however, the Board has suggested there could be more by individual undertakings "only when there is genuine progress in the effective use of manpower".
Mr. Gunter met representatives of the Federation of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers and of the Transport Workers' and General and Municipal Workers' Unions. He recommended the findings of the Board to both sides for their consideration. Mr. Alan Thomson, national bus secretary of the TGWU, said after the Ministry of Labour meeting that they had gone into all aspects of increased productivity.
"We have emphasized, however, that we will not agree to operate any obligatory measures unless they are part of an industrial agreement", he said.
He thought it possible that Mrs. Castle, Minister of Transport, might make one-man operation obligatory. The TGWU would insist on it being part of an agreement, with some sharing of the savings made on increased productivity. They were also not bound by the 3 to per cent proposed.
"We shall be discussing it with the employers next week in an endeavour to get more, either nationally or from individual undertakings-, said Mr. Thomson.
An agreed statement, issued after the meeting, said that both sides of the Council expressed their agreement with the aim of increasing productivity and pointed out that the Council had made considerable progress on, for example, one-man operation.