First settlements
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THE FIRST v.4L;e settlements of the winter have been agreed by hauliers and drivers in Eastern and Southern England, but negotiations in topof-the-wage-league Liverpool are likely to be drawn out.
The Eastern settlement increases basic wage rates by 1:6 for 40 hours, taking the 32.5tonne rate up by six per Cent to 1:106.25 and the 38-tonne rate up by 5.7 per cent to 121[1.75. Overnight subsistence rises by 70p to
A sub-committee of employers' and Transport and General Workers' Union representatives is to discuss payments for loss of HGV licences in the New Year.
The Southern settlement increases the 40-hour rate for vehicles over 20 tonnes GVW by 1:6, taking the 32.5-tonne rate up by 5.9 per cent to 1: 10 6.50. The minimum weekly fall-back pay per Liriver rises by !]5 to 1:110.
'1 lie 5:1.50 daily supplement for driving 38-totincrs remains, with the weekly rate now 1:114. Subsistence pay is up by 70p to '4:12.20 per night.
Agreements also look close in the Metropolitan and South-East area, where employers have offered 15.05 on the 40-hour rates of 1102 (32.5 tonnes) and 007.50 (38 tonnes), and in Leeds and Bradford where an offer of )26.10 on the 32,5-tonne rate of 000.90 is understood to have been made.
But in Liverpool, employers want a relaxation of sonic of the conditions imposed by the highly organised TGWU branch there before they are prepared to make any offer in response to the 1:8 wage claim lodged there.
Liverpool's 1105.50 32.5 tonne basic rate, 55 plain time hours guaranteed week and 1212.25 overnight subsistence rates are the highest in the country.
The two sides have met only once so far in the current negotiating round, and no further meeting has been scheduled, although the employers say they do want to preserve collective negotiations.
They want the TGWU to guaranteenot to take action against other Liverpool hauliers if they have a dispute with one, for it to remove its daily driving limit of 320 miles, to ease the conditions governing the hiring of temporary drivers, and for it to reform the guaranteed week.
At present, the union operates a register of drivers who are available for temporary employment and refuses to recognise driver agencies.