WAGES AGREEMENT FOR BUS WORKERS?
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DELEGATES representing nearly 100,000 employees of privately owned bus companies attended a national conference of the Bus Federation, at Leeds, last week. °' The Federation is a new organization comprising representatives of the National Union of Railwaymen and the Transport and General Workers Union. The object of-the conference was to discuss the establishment of national machinery for dealing with wages and conditions.
Mr. Harold Clay, secretary of the Federation, said that there was a big demand from delegates for early national negotiation with the employers and for a national agreement.
Mr, J. Marchbank, general secretary of the N.U,R,, said that the trade unions were not asking for anything of a revolutionary nature, but some form of control over wages and conditions was desirable. The conference held that there should be a common rate of payfor a given job.
The next move of the Federation will be to ask the approval of the executives of the two unions on the decisions taken at the conference. Following this, an approach will be made to responsible employers' organizations.
SCOTTISH BUSMEN SEEK HIGHER WAGES.
SSOME 800 employees of the Scottish Traction Co., Ltd., decided, at a meeting in Glasgow, last week, to support the demands of their negotiating committee for higher wages and holidays with pay.
The following are the proposed conditions :—Increase in drivers' wages from ls. 3d. to Is. 6d. an hour; wages of conductresses to be increased from 7id. to 101d: per hour. All employees to have two weeks' holiday each year with pay.
A further meeting will be held at Stirling to-morrow (February 201.