TGWU supports BRS pay offer
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• The Transport & General Workers' Union is advising the 2,500 drivers and ancillary staff at BRS to accept a 4.9% pay increase, The TGWU has approved the NFC company's offer of 4,9% on the basic £142.22 — £156,52 for a 40-hour week, with a matching increase on the subsistence rate of £17.70 in the UK and £28,25 on the Continent. Holidays have been renegotiated too, so that drivers only have to be employed for three years instead of five to qualify for five weeks' holiday instead of four. Next year the qualifying period will be reduced to two years, and the year after that to one year.
It says that if the deal is accepted at the union's delegate conference on 6 February it will take immediate effect and will be backdated to January: We believe we have achieved as much as we can through the couple of months of negotiations," says the TGWU's John Moore.