Colchester strike called off
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• The 10-day strike by 120 Colchester busmen which began on December 20 was called off following a meeting between the corporation transport committee and union negotiators on Monday. Normal services were resumed on Wednesday.
It was agreed that the men should each get £1 a week rise paid retrospectively to December 17 1967. Meanwhile, the dispute over one-man operation of double-deck buses is to be referred for arbitration to the Ministry of Employment and Productivity.
An earlier stop-the-strike bid broke down on Sunday and the men voted to continue their stoppage. Bus union officials were claiming that the council had already agreed to backdated rises amounting to about £70 per man. The negotiations over a new rate for manning double-deck one-man buses also reached deadlock last week-end.