MINISTER IGNORES UNION PLEAS
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DESPITE last week's union pleas, Mr. Michael Stewart, Economics Minister, has gone ahead with an order under the Prices and Incomes Act restricting pay increases for 80 workers in Birmingham Corporation Transport Department.
Under the order the Corporation will not be able to pay the men more than they were getting before July 20 last year without the consent of Mr. Ray Gunter, Minister of Labour.
Just before the freeze, the Corporation agreed to a 15 per cent pay rise for the men, back-dated to August 1965.
TRANSPORT BILL DATE
MRS. BARBARA CASTLE hopes to introduce her long-awaited Transport Bill soon after Parliament reassembles in the autumn— Commons answer.
Tunnel Approaches: On March 17 the Minister of Transport visited Birkenhead. and inaugurated £4m. roadworks designed to segregate traffic and relieve congestion on the Mersey Tunnel approaches.