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Company pay talks resume on Monday
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from our industrial correspondent • Talks on a claim for rises of 24s 2d a week for I10,000 drivers and conductors in company-owned buses will be resumed on Monday. They were adjourned last week because the employers are still expecting clarification from the Ministry of Labour of particular aspects in the recent Incomes Board report on busmen's pay.
The claim is based on PIB recommendations which would bring the company busmen more into line with their counterparts on municipal services.
Nottingham Corporation officials were meeting NB officials in London this week to press for early payment of the £1-a-week rises which they agreed for the city's bus men earlier this year. A report on the pay deal is expected shortly after Easter.
At Newcastle on Tyne, too, discussions are taking place on a bid to "unfreeze" busmen's rises. Corporation officials are negotiating with the TGWU to devise a scheme for higher productivity.
The recent Government ruling that rises above 3+ per cent are unacceptable without productivity concessions has given rise to further talks on one-man buses and buses carrying 83 passengers instead of the present capacity of only 53.
The union is seeking a five-day week instead of the present 11-day fortnight and a revision of attendance bonus.
At a meeting yesterday (Thursday), the London busmen's negotiating committee of the Transport and General Workers' Union considered "proposals" from Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister of Transport, regarding its projected efficiency deal for 35,000 London Transport drivers and conductors.
It is feared that Mrs. Castle might veto the deal despite union concessions.