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New Municipal Pay Scale

23rd January 1953, Page 106
23rd January 1953
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A NEW grade of maintenance worker

has been added to the scale existing under the present national agreement for rates of pay of men employed by municipal undertakings and negotiated through the Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry. The present scale for semi-skilled men includes Grade 1, 2 and 3 employees, and the new grade, Al, will cover semiskilled men with special qualifications.

The maximum for a Grade 1 man is 129s. for a 44-hour week. The scale for a Grade Al worker will be 136s. 4d. for the same period.

A new agreement has been negotiated through the same channels for driverconductors employed by municipal

undertakings. Under this, men working one-man operated buses will receive 15 per cent. more than the normal rate of pay, irrespective of the vehicle's carrying capacity. This new rate is effective from the first full pay period after January 8.

EXHIBITS FOR GENEVA

BRTTISH commercial-vehicle exhibits at the Geneva Show (March l5-15) will include Austin, Bedford, Commer, Karrier, Ford, Land Rover and MorrisCommercial. As far as can be ascertained, the representation in this field from other countries will be: America, five; France, seven; Germany, ten; Switzerland, two; Hungary, one; Austria, one. There will also be about half-a-dozen exhibitors of trailers.

1551m. OUTPUT

IN 1949 1,112 motor and cycle manufacturers in Great Britain had an output of an aggregate value of £551,380,000. The net output per employee was worth £577. Manufacturers paid £1,651,000 for transport services.

These figures are given in "The Report on the Census of Production for 1949, Volume 3, Metal Manufacture and Vehicles," published by the Stationery Office at 2s.


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