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nk Griffin told CM: "We be none too popular with us Healey over this, but we -e got one or two meetings h the employers set up to niss the claim."
leanwhile, it now seems ikely that sanctions will be 'lied to the 1,700 hauliers D have agreed to pay West Hands driver 15 per cent rises.
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;ources within the Departnt of Transport now think the practicality and the ality of some ideas under cussion for sanctions to be ployed against hauliers )uld be in doubt.
;uggestions that internanal Haulage permit )wances should be revoked y not be legal because the tish Government is merely ing as an agent for foreign :horities and their agreent would be needed to stop allocations.
Dther suggestions including King drivers' overnight owances and cancelling blic contracts would be ely to bring the Governmt into a head-on clash with 3 unions.
Mr Cooper commented that tges and fuel prices, plus the sts of spares, had risen so .ich that hauliers would need [5 per cent price rise in order stand still — and that is iother possible target for nctions against the hauliers.
If the industry wanted to get ofessionals to do the job, en it was necessary to pay ofessional wages. "If we ant the right man for the job, en we must pay the right ages," he said.
"It is about time we started lking realistically about ages. By the time all the aims have gone in they will thanking us that we settled 15 per cent," said Mr Doper.