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T&G demands legal minimum
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THE TRANSPORT & General Workers Union has asked Transport Minister Tony McNulty for support in its battle to make sure all non-UK drivers are paid at least the minimum wage.
Rachael Webb, who is helping to spearhead the campaign at the union, asked McNulty for backing at the South-East Labour Party Conference. "He said he would consider it," says Webb, who is awaiting a reply from his office.
The union is trying to make sure that Eastern European drivers, particularly Bulgarians, are being paid the minimum wage while they are working in the UK.
It has been liaising with the government's national low pay office to make sure this happens. The T&G is not only pressing for drivers working for firms like Willi Betz to be paid the minimum wage in the UK; it is looking at whether backdated pay claims could be lodged against the companies for the difference between the minimum wage and what drivers have actually earned since 1999.
A number of Eastern European drivers are known to have joined the T&G following the launch of the union's new hard-hitting campaign. Webb is hoping to visit a number of other Moto service stations following her recent success at Thurrock.