Agreement on company bus pay
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• Pay rises of 15s a week for 110,000 company busmen are to be paid from September, it was agreed on Tuesday.
This brings their weekly basic rate within 1s 2d of Britain's 77,000 municipal drivers and conductors and opens the way towards possible joint negotiations for the two groups in future.
The deal is worth 4.9 per cent more on basic rates. Company drivers' new rate will be £14 9s 10d compared with the municipal men's £14 11s.
It was also agreed to bring all companies into a new national agreement on one-man bus operations.
The deal has still to be approved under wages policy. And later this month the DEP will bring together unions and employers to discuss the setting up of a joint negotiating procedure covering both company and municipal busmen.
Men with five years' service will get an improved holiday bonus of £2 18s a week and those with six years or more will get £4 17s in extra holiday pay.