Busmen and bosses fight for cash
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WHILE busmen seem to have won their fight for the full six pounds allowed under government anti-inflation legislation, municipal operators are hoping that the government will not cut its total cash support to urban areas next year.
Of the Cl 02m allocated from Treasury sources for 1975/76 to support local authority transportation expenditure, 93 per cent was channelled to London and the Metropolitan counties, leaving only 7 per cent of available TSG to be shared out for rural areas. The DoE have indicated that the urban areas will get less cash in the following financial year which is worrying city authorities.
The Chairman of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities said last week that the present policy meant a cutback of about 47 per cent in transport spending.
On the staff side, the Transport and General Workers Union demanded that the E6 wage increase should be given to all members across the board. The employers had been hoping that the employees would accept £6 for their higher paid members and proportionately smaller sums for the lower paid, The busmen's pay award Will be payable from January 1, 1976.