MuniCipal Men are Still After a 40-hour Week . . .

3rd May 1963, Page 63

3rd May 1963

Page 63

Page 63, 3rd May 1963 — MuniCipal Men are Still After a 40-hour Week . . .

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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

lkAUNICIPAL busmen are to renew IVI their efforts to win a 40-hour week. As forecast in The Commercial Motor last week, they have decided to accept the offer of an all-round pay rise of 8s. 9d. a week. At a delegate conference, held in London, representing nearly 70,000 busmen in municipal undertakings in England, Scotland, Wales and in Belfast, it was decided by an overwhelming majority to approve the employers' proposal.

The increase will apply to drivers, conductors and to semi-skilled and unskilled maintenance staffs. It represents a pay rise of between 4 and 4{ per cent. At the same time the conference agreed that the claim for a two-hour reduction in the.working week should be taken up again. This formed part of their original claim, but was rejected by the employers.

There is, however, little hope that a 40-hour week will be granted within the foreseeable future. Apart from the cost, the first report of the National Incomes Commission has strengthened the hands of employers in resisting further reductions in hours, which, unless accompanied by a genuine cut in the hours worked, are only a back-door way to another pay rise.

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