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T&G wants to beef up JICs
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The T&G Union wants a minimum rate of E10 an hour and sees joint industrial councils as the way to achieve this. Guy Sheppard repor.s.
UNION LEADERS want the last remaining regional councils that negotiate driver pay rates to be given more power.
Joint industrial councils (JICs) organised jointly by the Road Haulage Association and the Transport & General Workers Union still function in Scotland. and the East and West Midlands hut their agreements are not binding on employers.
CiivingJICs greater power and a new minimum pay rate of 110 an hour, plus inflation, are among several objectives agreed by the T&G conference for the hire and reward sector.
Ron Webb, T&G national organiser for road transport, says: We understand the pressures on employers, but they must get the message that driving down standards for drivers is not the route to a robust and thriving transport industry."
The union hopes to beef up the JICs through a recruitment push among drivers at small and medium-sized operators. It then plans to press employers to accept the regional JIC rate as binding.
A T&G spokesman says reviving defunct JICs is not an immediate objective of the union.
But Chris Wright, southern and eastern regional director of the RHA, accuses the union of trying to turn the clock back.
-1 just feel we have reached the end of JICs in their current form," he says. "There are a few hauliers that still have the JIC rate in their employment contract. A lot would not actually pay the rate,but would pay the percentage increase that the JIC had agreed on top of their own internal salary structure."