• TUC transport committee chairman Bill Morris has hit back
16th February 1989, Page 6
16th February 1989
Page 6
Page 6, 16th February 1989
— • TUC transport committee chairman Bill Morris has hit back
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British People, United Kingdom, International Transport Workers' Federation, International Union Of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco And Allied Workers' Association, Transport And General Workers' Union, Bill Morris, Trades Union Congress, Haulage
at critics of the unions' call for a national transport advisory body. "Anyone who says the present system works is supporting a recipe for chaos. It is complacence in the exIreme," he says.
The Freight Transport Association and the Road 'Haulage Association gave he idea a frosty reception,
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.qvould have little influence '1311 government policy.
"The situation we now have is evidence of the ineffectiveness of the road transport lobby. We just struggle from crisis to crisis and the sheer waste of resources is incredible," responds Morris, who is deputy general secretary of the TGWU. "Britain has a roadbuilding programme going nowhere from anywhere."