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Strike spreads over the border
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stranglehold on raw materials and foodstuffs had not been loosened.
The unofficial strikers have been offered an increase which would give a Class 1 driver £35.80 basic, but the men want £40.
Among NFC facilities affected were the BRS Parcels depotg. at Aberdeen and Kirkcaldy, where drivers – like other BRS men — had only recently been offered a rise of £7.25.
A BRS Parcels spokesman told CM that drivers at the Scottish depots had probably struck because picketing had made continuation of normal working impossible. He added that drivers at the BRS Parcels depot in Glasgow had given notice of a withdrawal of labour from the end of the week but he was hopeful that this might be averted by negotiations between the management and representatives of the drivers.
Meanwhile, public transport in Glasgow had been brought to a standstill when 3,000 busmen and underground workers struck from midnight on Saturday over a claim for interim increase of £5 in the basic weekly wage. Mr R. Jenkins. the TGWU official who is representing bus crews employed by the Glasgow PTE, said that the men were seeking an increase On a 40hour week of 125 per cent, which would cost the PTE an additional £8.5m a year. He admitted that this was outside the social contract but said that the demand had the full support of the bus crews.