Agreement on Standing to End
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riE unofficial Sheffield bus strike had nothing to do with the decision to give notice to terminate the national agreement relating to standing passengers in buses. Mr. S. Henderson, national officer of the passenger section of the Transport and General Worker's Union, stated this last week when the union's notice was disclosed.
At the last meeting of the National Joint Industrial Council, the union gave three months' notice to end the agreement, said Mr. Henderson. He then emphasized that he was not speaking in his capacity as chairman of the council.
Staffs throughout the country were dissatisfied with the standing-passengers agreement, he added. The union had made several unsuccessful attempts to have it reviewed.
A meeting to discuss the general question of standing passengers had been arranged for November 12, but this was later brought forward to yesterday.
Aid. Sidney Dyson, chairman, Sheffield Transport Committee, and Mr. John Heys, town clerk, visited London on Friday to report on the situation to the employers' organization.
• SHORTER WEEK FOR 14,000
A BOUT 14,000 workers in the liquid1-1 fuel distributing industry are to have a 42-hour week from January 4 next year. Drivers of heavy vehicles will get higher wages, and, employees with 25 or more years' service a third week's holiday with pay.
Employers have assured the trade union that hired vehicles would be used only when work could not efficiently be done by ancillary vehicles.
DEPOT EARNS MEDAL THE new £400,000 bus depot of Sheffield Transport Department at Greenland Road, Darnall, which was opened in June, 1958, has been awarded a medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects. The garage has inside accommodation for 172 buses and outside space for a further 100.