Manchester Bonus Plan Opposed
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MANCHESTER Corporation have been told that their £200,000 bonus scheme, designed to solve the city's shortage of busmen, is unacceptable to the rest, of the country's bus undertakings, and would be an embarrassment to other employers. .
The executive of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association have strongly urged Manchester to." explore all other avenues to recruit labour, including the employment of conductresses before putting forward other bonus schemes."
Ald. Robert Weir, chairman of the Blackburn Transport Committee and a member of the M.P.T.A. executive, said last week: " Parts of the Manchester -scheme cut . clean across the national wage agreement. If this were introduced 'it would have repercussions throughout the country's transport industry.
"The main objections to it are that it has come at a psychological moment when the Transport and General Workers' Union have claimed a substantial increase in wages, and all other undertakings running in and out of Manchester have exploited to the full local labour, including women, to meet their labour shortages."