Reprieve for Grimsby buses
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111 Crews employed by Grimsby2leethorpes joint committee have called )ff—at least for the time being—their hreatened strike (CM last week), in support )f a £1.50 a week pay increase and the onsolidation of £1 productivity money into heir basic rate. The move followed two neetings last Wednesday, one between the
men and representatives of the transport committee, and a later meeting called by the Transport and General Workers Union.
Mr Larry Smith, national bus secretary of the TGWU, said at the later meeting, reported to be a touch and go affair, that they had not met a committee able to make a decision, but only a number of people who were not empowered to make any decision whatsoever, and the meeting had nearly terminated on that basis.
Finally, however, members of the transport committee agreed to give further consideration to the busmen's claim at their next meeting, to be held early in September. Mr Smith reported that the men had also agreed "as an act of good faith" to let an experiment with one-man double-deckers go ahead.