Yorkshire Operators Approve Wages Board
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REPRESENTATIVES of the road goods-transport industry in Yorkshire met at Leeds, last week, to discuss the report on wages, hours and conditions which has been made by the sub-committee of the National Conciliation Board and adopted by the latter body. Delegates from every association representing goods-transport operators in the Yorkshire Traffic Area were present at the conference, which was convened by the Northeastern Division of the Motor Trans-port Employers Federation, and which was in the nature of a preliminary to setting up a joint board for the area.
Mr. G. E. Gilbey, chairman of the North-eastern Division of the Commercial Motor Users Association, was unanimously elected chairman. In explaining the purpose of the meeting, B34 he described the sub-committee's report as a plan to bring order into the industry by placing every road-transport operator on the same footing. He also pointed out that there were many questions which the National Board had referred to the Area Boards for consideration. Here was an opportunity, said Mr. Gilbey, for the industry to control its own affairs, so far as concerned wages and conditions.
Captain A. H. Amor, managing director of Northern Motor Utilities, Ltd., who is a member of the National Joint Conciliation Board, gave a survey of the report.
Replying to one of many questions, he said that the sub-committee's report could not, or would not, be referred to the various operators' associations for their views, as the Board was a statutory body to which had been given powers to determine rates of wages and conditions of employment.
Mr. Gilbey and Captain Amor made a strong appeal for the closest cooperation between all goods-transport concerns in the matter under consideration, and urged that they should regard it from the point of view of the industry as a whole. A resolution accepting the principle of the Joint Conciliation Board was. adopted. It was also decided that each association in the area should convene a special meeting of its members to discuss the sub-committee's report after which a further conference of representatives of the associations will be held.
The scales of wages and conditions were published in The Commercial Motor dated August 10.