More union feet-dragging?
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DISTURBING reports of union unwillingness in some areas in implementing the employer/union declaration on the ending of restrictive practices, signed in February, are referred to by Mr. John Spencer Wills in his annual report as chairman and managing director of the British Electric Traction Co. Ltd.
Mr. Wills said the comments in the Prices Board's report on the bus industry had come as no surprise; the abolition of practices which restricted productivity was long overdue. He recalled that six years ago the unions, in a unanimous NCOI resolution, recommended one-man operation to their branches but the unco-operative attitude of their members in many parts of the country had thwarted progress.
Commenting that the effect of the 40hour week, added to the cost of the Wilson Committee's other recommendations represented easily the largest pay increase in the history of the industry, he said it was hardly surprising if operators looked askance at the very mention of a further wage increase of up to 3+ per cent, as currently under consideration.
Mr. Wills categorized the withdrawal of investment allowances from road vehicles as "blind discrimination" against service industries.