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Long hours, PIB told
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• A 3.8 per cent increase in the shortage of municipal bus crews since December is stressed in the written evidence to the Prices and Incomes Board by the Transport and General Workers' Union. The union said busmen's average hours were higher than in any other industry except road haulage. The excessively long hours were worked to provide a reliable public service and because of the'clesperate reliance" on overtime pay, The union said the ban on voluntary overtime during the recent municipal bus dispute reduced fleet operations by up to one-third, encouraging still more passengers to acquire private transport. It contrasted the irony of the Minister of Labour's belief that busmen's take-home pay compared with average earnings in industry regardless of the comparison of hours worked, with the Minister of Transport's insistence that bus crews' hours of work must be reduced, with an obvious effect on earnings.