British Transport Commission and predecessors: Railways Labour and Staff Matters:...

RAIL 1025

1912-1988

Printed regulations, arbitration awards, and other papers concerning the pay and conditions of railway staff mostly printed and published in one form or another, of the railway companies, the railway unions and of various independent, or government - appointed bodies in the conciliation and arbitration field.

During examination of the material in these two series for identification of duplicates some rearrangement of the pieces was made in an attempt to associate like material. This was found to require more sortation than time allowed, however, and readers should regard the present references as temporary, therefore. The two series would probably be best integrated, and arranged chronologically. Keys to former references can be found in the hard copy list for this in the Standard List Sets available on open access in the public areas.

For records of the Railways Staff Conference see AN 98

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Public Record(s)

English

281 bundles and volumes

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In 1977-2003 British Railways Board

Topics

Railways

Transport management

Pay and pensions

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The Railway Staff National Tribunal was established under part 6 of the Machinery of Negotiation for Railway Staff, which was agreed in February 1935 between the railway companies on one side and the National Union of Railwaymen, Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, and the Railway Clerks' Association on the other. The agreement covered weekly paid traffic employees and salaried staffs within certain salary limits; it set up negotiating machinery, of which the tribunal acted as the final resort for settling questions of major importance left unresolved at earlier stages. The tribunal consisted of three members, one chosen by the unions and one by the railway companies, with a permanent independent chairman appointed by the government. A standing Special Joint Committee on Machinery of Negotiation for Railway Staff administered the tribunal and published its decisions. The arrangement remained in operation throughout the Second World War and continued after nationalisation.