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HERE we go again! The current topic is once again pay and, with every respect to the employees and their union representatives, one cannot help a mood of cynical resignation. It is difficult to imagine many operating sectors of transport where an increase will not within a few months be effective.

On the haulage side, the Wages Council displayed its usual notice tof objections when, on Tuesday, it swept aside some 300 to determine the latest proposals for employees of Aand B-licensed haulage concerns. B.R.S. is engaged in complementary negotiations, the outcome of which will follow a similar foregone conclusion. C-licensees must, perforce, largely follow the haulage pattern.

Claims for pensions (on the company side only), a guaranteed seven-hour day and other benefits are beginning their journey down the municipal and company bus channels. It seems not unreasonable to expect the unions, whose obduracy has cost London Transport busmen some 9s. a week (now the long-drawn-out productivity negotiations have disintegrated), to make a pay claim.

That brings just about everyone in on the act. Surely it is time to sit down and try to discuss a sensible wages policy instead of this incessant scramble where new claims are obviously being considered almost before the ink is dry on the last agreement. The unions prefer the presence of so many bargaining points, and will do nothing.

Who will? Someone will surely have to, sooner or later.

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