Unions Reject N.J.I.C. Pay Offer
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FOLLOWING failure of the National Joint Industrial Council last week to reach agreement on an increase in pay for municipal busmen, another meeting is to be held today. The union representatives rejected an offer by the employe rs.
This is thought to have been an increase of 3s. a week, similar to that awarded by the provincial bus companies. It may well be that, if they stand their ground with the companies, the municipalities will also be involved in strikes.
NO VARIATIONS IN WAGES?
AT the next meeting of the Federalion of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers, Area B is to call for the annulment of the provisions enabling individual undertakings to deviate, subject to the approval of the National Joint Industrial Council, from national rates of pay. Rochdale Corporation are among those who are supporting Area B.
U.S. RIVALS IN OIL-ENGINE MARKET
I-1 A WARNING against American cornpetition in the oil-engine market is given by Lord Kindersley, chairman of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., in his annual statement.
" The oil engine business is at all times highly competitive," he says, "and there is every indication that British manufacturers will have to face throughout the sterling area competition from American companies, who are being encouraged to establish factories in Great Britain, with the added advantage of importing American-made components in the interim. To meet this competition we have to intensify our technical development, our studies of manufacturing efficiency, and the establishment of sales and service facilities on a world-wide scale."
MOVE AGAINST POSSIBLE DISCRIMINATION
STEPS are to be taken by the Road Haulage Association to protect the interests of hauliers against possible discrimination under the British Transport Commission's Docks, Harbours and Inland Waterways Charges Scheme.
There is thought in some quarters to be a risk that the Commission might be able to impose discriminatory charges on certain classes of merc,handise, or on traffic carried by private hauliers in competition with British Road Services. Representations are therefore to be made to the Transport Tribunal by the R.H.A., in conjunction with the Association of British Chambers of Commerce and the Traders' Docks and Harbours Co-ordioating Committee.
There is at present no suggestion that the Commission would use -any such power that they might gain.
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