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)roductivity talks
.0m our industrial correspondent Leaders of London's 35,000 busmen are ) discuss a new pay and productivity offer .om London Transport at a meeting of teir negotiating committee next Thursday. This follows talks between management nd union officials and Mrs. Barbara Castle, finister of Transport. Mrs. Castle made certain proposals" regarding the deal 'hich will be placed before the negotiang committee.
Talks between the LTB and the Transort and General Workers' Union are [most complete. In return for Ll a week ses, the union is to concede a 5 per cent at in running times on Sundays and weekays between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.; drop its an on standing passengers outside rushours; and allow the introduction of more ne-man buses. London Transport regard the one-man bus concession as the most important part of the deal: it has a great deal of capital tied up in many one-man buses, now standing idle, waiting to take to the road. The TGWU is also prepared to let buses depart from their scheduled routes to pick up and put down passengers outside factories and hospitals; five standing passengers will be allowed all day, three on one-man buses.
Much depends on whether the Government can agree the deal is in line with the prices and incomes policy. Any delay in reaching a settlement could provoke a highly dangerous situation. Certainly, the London busmen would not be prepared to wait for their rises in the way 77,000 municipal drivers and conductors have done.