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Stalemate in London One-man Bus Talks
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT ONDON TRANSPORT renewed last 1.-.1 week its attempt to get union agreement to the introduction of one-man buses on some of its outer suburban routes.
At a meeting with representatives of the Transport and General Workers' Union Mr. Brian Harbour, London Transport Executive member responsible for operations, raised again the plan for using driver-only buses on routes where the traffic was light.
It is a move to which he has been trying for two years to get union consent. But after a two-hour meeting little progress seems to have been made. The great stumbling block still seems to be the question of extra payment and how the savings from one-man operation are to be divided. London Transport already operate 190 one-man buses on their country routes, where they pay the driver an additional 15 per cent. to cover the extra duties and responsibilities.
At their last meeting on this subject in March the union representatives demanded that 55 per cent. of the saving should_ be distributed among all the drivers and conductors at the garage from which one-man buses operated.
In addition, they wanted a guarantee against redundancies among displaced conductors, no standing passengers and seating not to exceed 39.
This time the union men, led by Mr. Arthur Townsend and Mr. Sam Henderson, did not raise the 55 per cent. again. But they pressed for more than 15 per cent.