Chronicle April 1963 – July 1963
| Author | Robert F. Banks |
| Published date | 01 June 1963 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8543.1963.tb00984.x |
| Date | 01 June 1963 |
Chronicle
April
1963
-
July
1963
APRIL
London
April
I.
By a vote
of
about two to one, London bus
busmen’s
workers, represented by the Transport and General
pay
claim
Workers’ Union (TGWU), rejected the London
Transport Board’s (LTB) offer of a three-year contract
(because
it
was linked with productivity proposals) in
favour of an all-round weekly increase of
10s.
The
LTB advised the TGWU that
it
would proceed with
the plans for increasing efficiency and productivity in
spite of the busmen’s refusal to co-operate.
April
8.
The
5,000
semi-skilled and unskilled mainten-
ance workers in London Transport garages decided
to reject the general weekly increase of
10s.
accepted
by the
34,000
bus drivers and conductors on April
I;
instead, they agreed to weekly increases (back-dated
to November
5)
of
9s.
7d. for semi-skilled workers and
gs.
id. for unskilled workers.
Inquiry
into
hbourrehtiom
in
bpnkiag
April
2
-
May
29.
Following an announcement
by
Mr.
John Hare, Minister of Labour, on April
2
that there
would be an inquiry into labour relations in banking,
Lord Cameron, Chairman
of
the Inquiry, heard evi-
dence from the interested parties between April
30
and May
29.
The terms of reference of the inquiry
were ‘to inquire into the complaint made by the
National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE)
on
March
12,
1962,
to the Freedom
of
Association Com-
mittee
of
the International Labour Organization and
to report’. The NUBE’s complaint included three
charges
:
(a) the union had been and was being prevented
by
the banking employers from exercising its
proper and normal function as a trade union;
(b) the union had been denied recognition by the
four banks in question;
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