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Will Birmingham be Expelled from J.I.C.?
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BIRMINGHAM Corporation face expulsion from the employers' side of the National Joint Industrial Council, having negotiated a local wage award for their drivers and conductors to improve conditions of work and be able to attract and maintain labour. The men receive an extra 6s.-7s. a week. The annual cost will be £80,000.
Aid. H. Watton, chairman of the transport committee, said last week: `• An approach was made to the National Joint Industrial Council for permission, in view of the serious position in Birmingham, to increase the
basic wage by per hour for our employees. This permission was refused, but we were told that the constitution provided for an increased payment to be negotiated locally."
His statement was amplified by Aid. H. S. Goodby, former committee chairman. "It is obvious we shall be sent out of the Federation of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers—the employers' side of the National Joint Industrial Council," he said. "We shall have to start bartering with the unions at local level. We understand that the Council will object to the Birmingham agreement because of the manner in which it has been made."
The South Midlands Area of, the Federation last week told the corporation that all' wage negotiations should follow constitutional channels. Some Midland municipal bus managers are believed to think that Birmingham's decision exceeds the bounds of a local agreement on spread-over pay sanctioned by the J.I.C. • They argue that a general wage increase has been awarded and that employees in other undertakings will now make similar demands.
TROUBLE FROM BODY MAKERS
" I ET us serve notice on the Govern
1-4 meat and the employers that we intend to make trouble, and plenty, while we have time-served craftsmen trying to exist on a weekly wage of
• f7 4s. 1.0d. inclusive of the last increase of Bs. 6d. We shall carry forward the fight for increased wages with even greater intensity," said Mr. C. Gallagher in his presidential address to the conference of the National Union of Vehicle Builders at Whitley Bay last week.
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FISHING TRIPS: MORE PROOF
rOACH operators seeking licences for .1%." fishing trips must produce witnesses as well as documentary evidence. This ruling was given last week by Mr. W. P. James, West Midland Licensing Authority.
He said that in the case of applications to carry pre-booked parties to the illuminations and theatres, the Authority had been willing to reach a decision purely on documentary evidence.