One forum for bus pay?
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From Our Industrial Correspondent
• Union leaders representing 170,000 municipal and company busmen met in London last week to consider informally the idea of merging the two sets of pay negotiations—a move urged by the FIB.
This would mean scrapping the existing National Joint Council for the Passenger Transport Industry and the National Council for the Omnibus Industry and bringing the two. sets of busmen together in the same forum for fixing wages and conditions. Neither unions nor employers unreservedly welcome the suggestion. But obviously it would lead to a levelling-up of pay between the two sets of workers so the unions may have quite a bit to gain.
It was decided to pursue the matter further when the unions have more information about the effect on the industry of the proposals under the recent Transport Act to set up four new Passenger Transport Authorities, and the introduction of the National Bus Company.