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ADVISORY, Conciliation and Arbiion Service's long-awaited and h-leaked report, Industrial Relations he Coaching Industry, has finally ?ared, up to investigate Transport and ieral Workers Union and National on of Railwaymen claims that a onal negotiating machinery should !stablished in the coach industry, the imittee members were John Hanlon, n M. Birch, and Sir Harry Nicholas. says it found considerable resistance he idea of collective bargaining, and 5 that this could cause problems in tiring that future agreements were 'plied with nationally.
. concludes: "It could be to the ultimate advantage of the industry as a whole that some form of voluntary negotiating machinery be set up."
The possibility of statutory machinery, although accepted as being disadvantageous at this stage, being set up in the future is not ruled out.
And the report argues that unions and employers may ask the Secretary of State to establish a Joint Industrial Council in the event of voluntary bargaining failing. • For many coach operators, the report could not have been published at a worse time (writes Noel Millier), as many have the lorry drivers' strike in mind. They feel that a similar course of collective bargaining in the coach industry could be a recipe for disaster.