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Big pay claim from LT busmen
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• Only four months since London busmen received a £2 a week wage increase a fresh claim has been submitted on behalf of crews which, if granted in full, will cost the Executive an extra £4m a year. The claim is for a new shift-working allowance which would add 15 per cent to the busmen's basic rates. Drivers would receive an extra £3.60 a week and conductors between £3.40 and £3.45.
Although the principle of a shift payment is not new, it has been resisted in the past by employers, who claimed that the basic rates of pay took account of the inconvenient hours worked. A spokesman for London Transport told CM on Wednesday that the claim was being studied, hut it was too soon to comment.
The claim is expected to be repeated later in the year in respect of company and municipal busmen.