Committee's Report on Busmen's Pay
Page 43
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
QHORTLY after The Commercial 1--) Motor closed for press, a joint conciliation committee of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry was expected to report to a full meeting of the council its findings on the claim for a pay increase of about £1 a week for some 100,000 company bus workers.
The matter was referred to the conciliation committee after the council failed to agree on the claim (The Commercial Motor, December 24.) In London, most of the 58,000 busmen have rejected the London Transport Executive's latest pay offer of an extra 9s. 6d. a week. Local branches of the Transport and General Workers' Union voted on the issue last week.. Before the voting took place, officials of the union recommended their members to accept the offer.
Mr. A. Tiffin, assistant secretary, and Mr. F. Coyle, national passenger services secretary, said they believed that it was not possible to improve upon the offer by negotiations or any other means at the present time.
A union official told The Commercial Motor on Monday that he did not know what steps the union would now take.