• ▪ Maintenance : meeting sought
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• • Employers and unions have asked for a • meeting with Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister of • • Employment and Productivity, and Mr.
• Richard Marsh. Minister of Transport, about • the delayed pay deal for 2,600 British Road • • Services maintenance workers.
• They want to know how soon the Govern: ment will allow the men's rises to be paid. The Incomes Board has ruled that no fur•
• ther rises are possible without fresh -strings"
• being negotiated on work study and training.
• The BRS men have already received 3 per • • cent rises this year_ • Even when the new deal is negotiated, says • the FIB, no more than half the remaining 9 • ▪ per cent (outstanding on the existing agree, ment) should be paid. If the two sides ignore • the Board's recommendations and pay out in • defiance of the Government, Mrs. Castle will
• ,'freezethe increases. • •