National Bus Wages Polley to be Formed
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A FTER a stormy five-hour meeting on 1-1 Tuesday, delegates representing provincial company _and municipal bus workers agreed to formulate_ a national policy , on wages to avoidleapfrogging claims. The • various regions will now
consider the question.
The object is to establish a fixed differential between country and London bus workers' wages. Consequently, future demands for pay increases would be made together by th&. three principal groups of bus workers.
Representatives of London trolleybus and country service employees voted against the national wages structure. The demand for an inquiry into London busmen's complaints (reported on page 584) was rejected.
Mr. Harry Nicholas, assistant general secretary of the Union, said that a reasonable differential" should be established • between London and provincial rates, but he did not suggest a figure.
SHEFFIELD UNDERTAKING GETS £5,000 PAY SHOCK
THE backdating Of a 2d.-an-hour pay award to leraftsnien • cost -Sheffield Transport Department £5,000 in the present financial year; it vvas announCed last week. • Aid. S. I. Dyscin, ctiairrnan of the transport committee, said no' provision had been made for this expenditure as it was not expected • that the award would be backdated to July. The undertaking already had to find £100,000 to meet the increased wages for bus crews.
In an effort to stave off fare increases, Belfast Transport Committee have demanded that they should be reimbursed from the rates for the £35,000 they lose each year through allowing concessionary fares for the blind, pensioners and disabled ex-Servicemen. . .At. present the General Purposes Committee allow only £10.000.
The Bristol Omnibus Co., Ltd., say that they will investigate -possible economies before considering fare revisions.
BIRMINGHAM •PAY INCREASE A N increase in pay. of 7s. a week— similar to the national , award--for Birmingham municipal: bus ‘workers was agreed. on Tuesday by Birmingham Transport. Committee. The corporation do not take part in the national negotiations and pay a higher rate than the agreed ,scale. The increase will cost about £120,000 a.year, but it is reported that 'further increases in fares are unlikely.
OFF. TO NORTH AMERICA
ACCOMPANIED by the company's works manager, My. George Forest, Mr. H. W. Heyman,managing 'director of Smith's DeliveryVehicles,Ltd.. Gateshead on Tyne. will leave by air for NOrth America next Wednesday. Ile will visit Smith's Canadian company in Toronto and attend the".Dairy industries Conven tion and'Expeisition in Chicago.