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No Agreement Yet on Municipal Busmen's Claims
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FROM OUR 1NDUSTRI1L CORRESPONDENT
UNEXPECTED snags developed in London last week when the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry met to give itsfinal blessing to plans for a 40-hour week and a bonus scheme for more than 72,000 municipal busmen. As a result no agreement has been registered yet on these two contentious issues.
The 4.0-hour week, agreed at discussions last month, was due to be introduced from the end of the year. But when the Council met there were differences between the employers and the unions—the Transport and General Workers' and the General and Municipal Workers'—about a number of paragraphs relating to working conditions. The employers were under the impression that the unions had agreed to these.
No agreement was reached either on the special bonus payments, ranging from 10s. to 30s. a week, according to length of service. Differences of opinion seemed to have been straightened out following the intervention of Ministry of Labour conciliation officers.
After four hours of talks the Council agreed to adjourn on the understanding that both sides would have another look at the position and that a special meeting would be summoned, if necessary, before the next regular meeting of the Council in December. As a result of the deadlock a special delegate conference of municipal busmen has had to be cancelled. The conference, called for last Wednesday, had been expected to ratify formally the bonus agreement.