Bodymakers' Pay • Claim Rejected
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THE employers' side of the Wages I Board for the vehicle-building industry last week rejected a claim for higher pay made on behalf of their members by the National Union of Vehicle Builders, Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists, and the Electrical Trades Union. It was suggested to the workers' representatives that they should not pursue the claim.
The unions are to ifleet in about a week's time to discuss what action to take.
As reported in The Commercial Motor on December 28, the claim was for an extra 6d. an hour for skilled
workers, an hour for the semi.
skilled, and 54-d. an hour for the unskilled and for females, with proportionate increases for juvenile workers CLYDE TUNNEL SOON?
THERE is a prospect that work on the Clyde tunnel project at Glasgow may begin in April and be completed in 4i. years. -Glasgow Highways Sub-committee have accepted the £5.4m. offer of Charles Brand and Son, Ltd., London, for the constraction of a single tunnel which would relieve the traffic carried by the city's four central bridges.
The bridges carry 70,000 vehicles a day, and a tunnel would provide a new north-south ratite.
The scheme remains to be accepted by the Highways,. Committee, the City Council and ffie Scottish Home Department.
WALSALL INTER-WORKING VIEMBERS of Walsall Chamber of Pa Commerce who operate C licence vehicles are informing the secretary of the Chamber whenever they send a lorry on a long-distance journey. The object is to save fuel by securing return loads and reducing empty mileage. A similar scheme was operated during the railway strike of 1955, and worked so well that its re-introduction was suggested.