from an engineering reader Proposals for pay rises of up to 35% for full-time engineering officials of the Amalgamated Union of Engineers and FoundryWorkers will be put to the union's rules revision conference in March. (N.B. the AEF is the result of the mergdr of the AEU and the Foundry Workers' Union), Since Mr. Scanlon succeeded Lord Carron as president of the union in November it is now the policy of the union to repudiate Wilson's incomes policy. The effect of these proposals would be to give the seven executive members the same salary (£2,250 a year) as the president and peneral secretary, The executives’ present salary of £1,660 a year would be raised by £590 (35 per cent.) whereas the preseident and general secretary would receive only £250 more than their present salary of £2,000, a rise of 124%. The executive, which will be putting the prcposals to the rules conference, will also be recommending pay rises for the union'sother 190 full-time officials - ranging from an extra £150 a year for district secretaries (a rise of 10 per cent.) to £200 for the two assistant peneral secret— aries (12 per cent.) The union, as the biggest in the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, is vitally concerned with a pay demand for all its members, This has already heen conderned out of ‘.-~! hand by the PIB, the employers and Ray Gunter. Militant action will be necessary to ensure its success,
The WeekThe Week Vol. 9, No. 5, c. 31 January 1968
For Aef Officials
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