Bus transport under attack | Socialist Action 1983

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THE TORIES aim to reduce bus work to lump labour by breaking the standard day, introducing private contractors and selling off the National Bus network.

(TGWU 3/111 Bristol)

The only criterion for transport will be how cheap it is. County councils traffic commissioners will have to accept the lowest private tenders.

It will open the harbour to any pirate, sinking bus workers wages, conditions safety standards.

Amax, MacGregor has HANDS action.

Bus workers were all set for their first national strike for several years on 4 March. The transport UNLOUS passenger group suspended the overturning the decision of a delegate con ference for series of strikes for a 13 claim and a recall delegate Countrywide busworkers are attacked. Sheffield day of conference to consider any o el The offer agreed by the leadership was a five per cent increase reduced hours from 39 to 37½, without loss of pay, and a four day week.

It sounded good but the four day week will not be a standard day, it introduces flexible rostering.

This Will followed by the stick of depot closures, job loss and worse safety as local managements seek to push through rostering 'to the minute' Three weeks earlier Bill Morris, national secretary of the passenger a He promised to right the • group, spoke workers rally Bristol employers' attacks but the sell out on the pay dea proved serious he Wan Morris pinned all on the return of a government "tripar tite' planning agreements between management, government and unions.

But redundancies cured. under the last government this workers' participation his leadership Amax has formula merely ties the unions closer to manage ment. makes the independent action we need to defend our jobs conditions more difficult to achieve.

Our branch meeting after the strike suspension was attended by 80 people It voted unanimously to censure the national secretary and the national committee for 'violating • Lne our union and agreeing flexible rostering' Branches around should fill Mor Coullel y ris's office with similar resolutions and demand a national delegate conference to coordinate national action against cuts and closures.

Let's disprove his excuse that the ranks apathetic Despite these