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take advantage of this offer fill in of Socialist Press. I enc London TGWU officials last week achieved a significant step forward in their plans to abotage the pay struggle by 150,000 bus drivers, ticket collectors and depot workers.
They successfully steered through a delegate conference a call for a possible national one Followed by further industrial action"
Inquiry Butthey, made clear that this action is not in pursuit of an adequate wage claim for bus workerg-whose current basic rate is below £40 per weekbut to press TGWU national officer Larry Smith's ludicrous demand for an ''independent inquiry' into comparable rates of pay.
Smith has already declared himself willing to recommend acceptance of a pathetic 6% offer, if only it were linked to such an inquiry.
Yet bus crews have only just seen TGWU lorry drivers take determined strike action and win a 22% pay rise, taking their basic rate to £64. There is no chance of any inquiry producing a similar settlement.
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The demand to be taken up is not protest strike action to force a talk shop "inquiry" which will sell short the demands of bus workers, but all-out strike action for parity with the haulage drivers.
The only inquiry that should be conducted is a trade union inquiry into the effects of inflation on the pay packets of bus workers.
This would establish beyond doubt the necessity for wage agreements to be protected against rising costs through a sliding scale of wages clause committing the employers to pay regular increases through the year, to keep pace with the cost of living. i Please Name Address.
Send Hill, Lond League, 31, Dartmouth Park on NW5 1HR
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