other major European railway. the others receive a higher proportion of rail costs from government subsiay.
The vast sums which are needed to keep even the present BR equipment and track serviceable, never mind to modernise the system, are not forthInstead the Tories support and enhighly paid.
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pay and conditions, National Wing, which was from the NUR!
BRITISH Rail may be broke, but it is not because railworkers are The Low Pay Unit's research into wages paid in which the unit 'a nationalised indsutry with strong trade unions whose strategic power and influence in the national economy is potentially great' * In October 1979 (when the official Railwaymen's Charter proposes to re all. introduce compulsory Sunday workafter a long, nara struggle between the wars. icri. This comes not from management but The unions are asking the government for a big increase in investmenı and operating subsidy to British Rail, the Low Pay Unit's definition of low pay was £60 for a basic week excluding overtime there were 38,000 railworkers on basic rates of £54 and less.
* In April 1979, even by working more than twice as many hours in overtime as the average manual worker, the average total earnings of BR workers were still £3 week less than the average for all manual workers.
* Average hours worked which is essential if BR is to survive at Yet because they accept the need for rail to pay its way in capitalist - make a profit and not run as a service — the unions are offering a long list of cuts. General secretary of the NUR Sid Weighell has issued a letter to the unions' branches making the following proposals: by BR manual workers in. creased during the period 1976-1979 by 2.4, from 48.4 to In terms of hourly earnings, BR staff have enjoyed no improvement in earnings since the late 1960: (1974-5 excepted * By excluding overtim‹ there are almost three time: as many low-paid workers in BR, proportionate to the size of the workforce, as in other industries.
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