BUS COMPANIES TO STATE SEPARATE CASES?
Page 41
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
ACCORDING to the Transport and General Workers' Union, employers represented on the National Council for the Omnibus Industry have said that under the council's constitution, they are entitled to have a claim for increased wages considered by each individual company, instead of by one tribunal. On the present claim, 92 per cent, of the companies were willing to have the matter settled by one arbitration body. The other 8 per cent, demanded the right to state separate cases.
The • Union are opposing this proposal, and "are resolved to take all constitutional steps open to us to preserve intact the principle of national wage-fixing and a national set of conditions."
On the municipal side, the wages committee of the National Joint Industrial Council have cancelled the meeting due to take place on December 10 to consider the employers' claim for a reduction of 7s. 6d. a week in wages. This decision is believed to stem from the announcement by the Minister of Transport that he does not propose to reduce the number of standing passengers allowed in buses.