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from our industrial correspondent • Leaders of the Transport and General Workers Union hope to have an early meeting with the Ministry of Transport to discuss the "frozen" f1 -a-week pay award for 77,000 municipal busmen.
The award is due to be released on July 26. The unions argue that it cannot be held up further without making the busmen a special case under the Government's prices and incomes policy.
There is no doubt, either, that the busmen will expect their rises to be backdated to the original date of implementation of the agree ment in December 1967. Several corporations have already agreed to make retrospective payment.
Garage delegates have warned that they will be in the mood for an immediate strike if another delay is imposed. Action is also likely against any municipalities which refused to backdate the award. The busmen have vetoed all further extension of one-man bus operations until they get their rises.
TGWU officials threatened to sue for the rises when they were first held up: later, the
Prices and Incomes Board recommended a further three-month delay. The legal actions could be reactivated, if needed, to press for backdating.