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More Pay, Less Work

26th February 1965
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

WHY, the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry having enjoyed an arbitration award for municipal busmen, has the National Council for the Omnibus Industry not followed suit with regard to company bus employees? A 'distinct fall in productivity could be one answer; another, perhaps more significant, is the wide variation between municipal and company fleet work, so far as platform staff are concerned. , • A measure of productivity by bus crews is the number of tickets issued annually by each conductor. On company-run buses the number of tickets issued per conductor has dropped by about 451 per cent during the past four years. Basically it is not the conductor's fault, being rather the effect of reduced passenger-carryings; but it would tend to be rather more noticeable over a.company fleet (with its rural and inter-urban routes) than in a municipality which runs all urban services and is not so prone to the national trend away from bus travel.

• There is also the often-overlooked fact that nearly a quarter of the total time worked is not productive. A bus driver in an average company fleet works an average of nearly 53 hours a week; but of this time only 41 hours are spent at the wheel the remainder (22-),. per cent of the total) is " idle" time. Again, this is no fault of the employee; but it is nonetheless true.

Taken in conjunction with the claim for a basic 40-hour week, the current bid could mean about £2 a week more for each man involved, That is a lot to pay for a steadily decreasing rate of productivity.


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