B.R.S. PAY CLAIM REFUSED
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AN application for a substantial increase in pay from the administrative, professional, technical, supervisory and clerical grades of British Road Services has been rejected.
An agreement between the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association provides that members of the T.S.S.A. who take up employment with private undertakings will not be expected to join the T.G.w.u. Whilst the association will be responsible to their members for compensation rights, the union will represent them, where possible, in wage negotiations.
THREAT TO RAIL BUDGET
A MONG the factors which may affect r't the balancing of the railway's budget is "the increasing competition which may seriously affect railway receipts in certain categories of traffic." This possible allusion to forthcoming competition with road operators was made by the British Transport Commission on Tuesday on the application to the Minister of Transport for a 10 per cent, rise in dock, canal and railway goods charges.