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The Transport & General Workers Union has welcomed the improvements

11th August 2005, Page 37
11th August 2005
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on information, consultation and simpler recognition procedures, but says it will keep the pressure on MPs to amend the bill on the exemption from the Employment Relations Act (1999) for workplaces with fewer than 21 employees.

"Much of the haulage workforce is under that threshold," says T&G spokesman Andrew Dodgson. "There's every reason for them to be afforded the rights and benefits of union recognition, with better pay, better holidays, fewer hours and safer workplaces."

T&G membership in the road transport industry is around 100,000, including ware-house and clerical staff and drivers.

The Road Haulage and Freight Transport Associations say industrial disputes are uncommon. They don't expect this law to boost

union membership, even if it is extended to protect workplaces with fewer than 21 employees.

"Over the past 10 years a complex array of employment legislation has been introduced in the UK and that has made many traditional roles of trade unions redundant," says the FTA. "This would explain the reduction in trade union membership across many sectors of employment: not just transport.

"The need for a trade union reduces in smaller companies as there is generally better access to management, so concerns can be expressed."

And the RHA says: "Anyone who belongs to a union has additional employment protection, whether their employer recognises a union or not. The measures in the act are not likely to concern most of our members, as they are not unionised.'


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