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NIRC unable to help conductress

30th June 1972, Page 24
30th June 1972
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• The NIRC could do nothing to help a Midland Red conductress, Mrs Doreen Barnett, in her wish to become a driver at the company's Oldbury garage.

Mrs Barnett had applied to the court because after a ballot at the garage it had been voted by members of the Transport and General Workers' Union not to allow her to become a driver. Midland Red already employs 13 women drivers at other garages.

Sir John Donaldson, the court's president, said there was nothing under the law NIRC could do to help but said that Mrs Barnett had been quite right in applying to the court. Mrs Barnett's claim was therefore dismissed.