Full o-m-o agreement or no bonus
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• Doubts have been expressed about clarity of paragraph 97 of the Natic Board for Prices and Incomes Report No (Productivity Agreements in the Bus Inc try).
The paragraph reads: "in recognition these factors [the effects of the introduct of one-man operation], we think that 10 week, in the form of a bonus, would in first instance be an appropriate amount pay all platform staff in each garage wh a firm Agreement can be secured, or alre; exists, for the introduction and extensior single-manning.'
Some people have been wondering whc er this means that the lOs bonus will payable only where unions are party tc signed agreement to the introduction total one-man operation over an agr period.
According to spokesmen from both Ministry of Transport and the Prices ; Incomes Board, it does. The spokesman the Prices and Incomes Board told ( that he considered the capital A in the wi Agreement to be most relevant. There mi he said, be a formal agreement, and t "with no strings attached".