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SLOW PROGRESS IN LONDON DISPUTE —One Axed

18th February 1966
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

AS the London busmen's overtime ban entered its fourth week there were growing signs that services, drastically reduced to cope with the removal of 1,000 buses from the roads, would never be restored to their pre-ban level. And if they are not, private operators who are now working some of the routes on a day-to-day basis probably will be allowed to run a permanent service. This in fact has already happened in one case.

Talks to find a solution to the dispute have been making only slow progress and there seemed little sense of urgency by either side to bring it to an end. One of the most promising lines was on a method of introducing a five-day, 40-hour week in place of the present 11-day fortnight. But here the two sides were at loggerheads over the length of the working day and the question of compulsory overtime. London Transport is anxious to preserve the present flexibility whereby a busman can be required to work a shift lasting anything from 7 hr. 38 min. to 8 hr. 15 min. They, therefore, proposed that under. the five-day week arrangements the working day could last from 8 hr. to 8 hr. 37 min. But this, the busmen feel, is too long a day without overtime.

They also object to a London Transport proposal that every seventh week one of the two rest days should be worked compulsorily in an effort to mitigate the effect of the staff shortage. There are also difficulties about having the two rest days together and over spread-over duties.

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