Report is a blueprint for the next decade
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THE forthright condemnation by the Prices and Incomes Board of the .£1 a week pay increase concluded informally between municipal employers and the bus unions may shatter the patched up settlement and lead to renewed strikes and overtime bans.
Prompt action by the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ray Gunter, to ratify the increase will embarrass the FIB and do much to nullifY many of its constructive proposals.
The latest report of the Board "Productivity agreements in the bus industry" is a searching inquiry into the bus industry, and its labour relations. In the context of the proposed reorganization of road passenger transport, and the establishment of the National Bus Company, it may serve as a viable blue-print for the industry"s personnel relations _in the next decade.
Certainly many of its conclusions, designed to hasten the introduction of singlemanned buses over a mach wider front than has yet been possible, will prove of lasting value.