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Haulage Men Are Not Worse. Off

11th March 1960, Page 58
11th March 1960
Page 58
Page 58, 11th March 1960 — Haulage Men Are Not Worse. Off
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HE Guillebaud Report on railway.1 men's wages contains an error that makes labourers in road haulage appear to be lower paid than their opposite numbers in the railways. Attention was drawn to it last Friday by the Road Haulage Association. A table in the report is designed to compare the railway labourer's minimum wage of £7 16s. a week with the rates for corresponding workers in certain other industries. The figure of £7 14s. a week is given as the minimum for a road haulage worker.

In fact, the lowest possible basic wage for an adult road haulage worker is £7 19s., or 3s. more than the railway figure, Even this applies only in limited rural districts. The minimum basic pay in the London area is £8 6s. The 'error is strange, because Mr. Guillebaud is chairman also of the Road Haulage Wages Council.

If the British Transport Commission accept the report's recommendation of an 8 per cent, increase in wages for unskilled manual ' railwaymen, the minimum rate will be E8 8s. 6d. a week. The road transport unions may then demand an advance of at least 9s. 6d. a week for road haulage men.

The report shows labourers in municipal bus undertakings to he receiving a minimum of £8 4s. a week. They also would be worse off than the railwaymen under the Guillebaud recommendations.


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