Busmen Press for Overtime Award
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A 'DISPUTE between Middlesbrough
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Corporation .Transtiort Committee and the Transport and "General Workers' Unibi) lover :payment for Saturdayafternoon viork; has been reported • to
the-Ministry of Labour. .
The transport employees have asked for the introduction of. a schedule WhiCh will make them eligible for the recent Cameron award for Saturday-afternoon work.' For Some weeks the men have refused to work overtime and have now threatened to stop Saturday-afternoon work.
Middlesbrough men work 88 hrs. on an 11-day fortnight (live days one week, six the next), which puts them outside the terms of the award. As they work more than 88 hrs. when overtime is included, they contend that they should be included.
Alderman E. Harford, • chairman. Transport Committee, has stated that" the men's claim was not legitimate. He pointed out that all overtime was voluntary.