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Whole L.T.E. Pay Claim Again
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT
PAY talks are due to reopen today, Friday, between London Transport and leaders of its 39,000 busmen.
The talks themselves were a foregone conclusion following, the turn-down of the previous pay offer by a garage-bygarage vote of the affected men. But the busmen's negotiating committee did spring a surprise when they decided that the whole claim should be reopened.
It had been assumed that they would confine themselves to the main bone
contention-the differential between drivers and, conductors contained in the offer. For Central London and Green Line drivers there was to be an extra 7s. a week, but for conductors only 6s. The demand voiced at many garage meetings, and also pressed by the negotiators at the original meetings with the L.T.E., was that both grades should receive 6s. 6d.
Now Mr. Sam Henderson, national passenger group secretary of the T.G.W.U., has been instructed to seek a higher total amount than the £850,000 the previous offer would have cost L.T.E.
What the busmen have in mind, no doubt, is an upward revision of the offer in respect of conductors to bring them into line with the drivers.
But faced with a far greater shortage of drivers than of conductors, the London Transport negotiators will fight, hard to retain an element of preference.
At the same time the busmen's representatives will reopen discussion of their claim for less week-end working. Right at the start of the talks London Transport agreed to set up a joint committee to go into the question of week-end work and the possibility of lightening duties. But no further progress has so far been made. The third part of the claim-time and a half for Saturday work-seems to have been quietly dropped after being turned down by the L.T.E.
Two other sets of London Transport employees were involved in pay talks last week. Some .3,700 men employed in the workshops of London's underground railways were offered increases of 5s. and 6s. a week.
But negotiations for 5,000 road workshop staff,' who normally follow the men in the underground shops, were adjourned without apparently any offer being made.