Extra £1 without more productivity
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• An agreement between Newcastle upon Tyne transport committee and the TGWU to grant extra money to 180 bus inspectors and depot staff for weekend and holiday work has been rejected by the Department of Employment and Productivity. The men will, however, qualify for an extra £1 a week under a national regrading scheme.
Mr J. Mills, a Newcastle official of the union, said they were not seeking regrading, but extra pay for weekend working on the same basis as platform staff. The men had been willing to pay for their increase in terms of higher productivity, but instead they vvould get extra money, without any .increase in productivity.
Cllr, Neville Trotter, chairman of the transport committee, said that the DEP decision was absolutely ridiculous,