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PTE man faces dismissal
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THE GLASGOW PTE industrial relations director said last week that he is facing dismissal. Mr Joe Coyle is reported to have said, "I can't stomach Strathclyde, so I'm bidding for the highest pay-off possible." Mr Coyle's revelation comes as the region draws up plans to control Glasgow's transport.
They would start by appointing their own men to the PTE — one to' a directorship temporarily vacant. -I'm next," said Mr Coyle. "The boot or the slipper goes in when I'm seen by Bob McCulloch, the region's director of manpower."
Mr Coyle agrees that over the past few years he has -hassled" the region so much that he has made himself "thoroughly unpopular.The region is Socialist controlled but Mr Coyle says "I'm a Socialist. But I don't like them and they don't like me." He says he deplores the region's take-over and detests their tactics.
"If they sack me there will be war. I've never played up to them, and I won't start now when my future is at stake..; He put his salary at the £18,000 to £19,000 mark. Plus a car, which he claims has been the target for region sniping. "I'm 53," he said, "but it's argument rather than age that is pointing the finger at me."
He claims the present set-up has solved the manpower problem, reduced vacancies to a recruiting level, and brought in 98 per cent of one-man bus operations.
-Strathclyde are being hushhush about their plans," he said. "I have consulted Nalgo, and the region says it has done the same about protecting rights. But all talk of retirement is a smoke-screen."
Strathclyde Region agreed that five of the PTE directorships were being converted into two. Both would be region men. Malcolm Waugh, the region's highways and transportation vice-chairman, said the aim was increased efficiency. He added: "There is no action we think necessary that we won't take. We are not after heads — just efficiency."