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Drivers face hours cut

4th September 1997
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• Boots the Chemist drivers working in Nottingham face a drop in wages from October when their hours are cut from 47.5 to 43.5 a week.

This is despite winning a new pay deal, being introduced in October, which gives drivers a 3.75% hourly rate increase this year and a similar rise next year. Other allowances, such as the half-hour paid meal 0 break, will disappear. TGWU regional 11W officer Brian Crossland says: "Drivers will be worse off, but we had to achieve a compro mise or the work could have been contracted out."

He describes the pay increase as a "good package", taking into account other deals struck in the industry.

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