Catalogue description LONDON TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION

Papers in this collection cover three main areas of interest, Stamford Hill Bus Garage TGWU Branch 1/312, Public Transport Workers Jobs Campaign (Leaside District) and trade union publications such as Busworker and Transport Worker.

The main archival interest of the collection are the branch resolutions of Stamford Hill Bus Garage, TGWU Branch 1/312.

It is difficult to delineate between the main areas of interest from the papers deposited. Records have been arranged under the following four headings:

Trade Union Papers

Newsletters and Publicity

Transport Action Groups

Resource/Reference material

ABBREVIATIONS

ASLEF Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen

GLC Greater London Council

ITV Independent Television

LRT London Regional Transport

LT London Transport

LTE London Transport Executive

NUR National Union of Railwaymen

OMO One Man Operation (of trains/buses)

OPO One Person Operation (of trains/buses)

PTWJC Public Transport Workers Jobs Campaign (Leaside)

SERTUC South East Regional Trades Union Congress

TGWU Transport and General Workers Union

These papers are mostly undated and were found together with miscellaneous notes, occasional correspondence, magazine articles and ephemera (mainly leaflets and handbills). The papers have been left in the context in which they were found and have been sorted into folders but are not necessarily in chronological order within each folder.

London Transport Workers Union

Payling, Alan, fl 1980s

• Labour relations

Alan Payling was a bus driver for London Transport during the 1980s, based at Stamford Hill Bus Garage. In 1981/82, Payling was on the Branch Committee of Stamford Hill Bus Garage trade union, TGWU Branch 1/312, responsible for "Education and Information" and appointed a "Fare Fight Delegate" (see ACC/3029/7). He was responsible for the distribution and reception of various trade union, transport and local community leaflets and magazines.

The Public Transport Workers Jobs Campaign (Leaside District) ran a printing workshop and resource centre which were used by individual trade union branches such as Finsbury Park NUR and Wood Green ASLEF (see annual report 1985/86, ref: ACC/3029/17). The resource centre held material necessary to those campaigning in the transport industry and included GLC, LRT and TGWU material.

The Busworker group began as part of the campaign against one person operation of buses (OPO) in 1982/83. It derived partly from the LT Worker group which was set up in 1982 to fight the proposed loss of jobs/services after the "Fares Fair" campaign. The Transport Worker (which incorporated ibusworker Monthly) was a joint rail and bus newsletter for the dissemination of trade union information to all sections of London Transport. Alan Payling was on the editorial board of Transport Worker.

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