TGWU to push for £8 on drivers' basic wage
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by Jack Semple THEE TRANSPORT and General Workers Union's road haulage group has fixed its pay claim fort next year.
The six point claim calls for • £8 on basic rates
• a reduction in the basic working week to 39 hours
• night rate to be time-anda-third • 522 on overnight subsistance payments • introduction of a sickness and accident scheme • introduction of a national pension scheme for drivers The claim is decided by lay delegates from each area in Britain meeting in Transport House in London, but this year the Scottish region, which led a break-away from the national guideline for pay claims last winter, was not represented.
There is understood to have been a desire by many delegates to get back to national negotiations, but a recognition that this flies in the face of real trends in the industry.
Not only are differences in pay levels widening among areas and individual companies, but pay structures themselves are becoming more varied.
Nonetheless, the claim will be put to joint industrial councils and assenting haulier groups in most parts of the country with a view to reaching -a settlement by January 1, when existing agreements expire.
Levels set are still taken as the basic pay scale by many hauliers, and as a benchmark by others in individual company talks.