Immumimm■mi URTU to canvass at truckstops
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• The United Road Transport Union is to take its "one-union" campaign to truckstops throughout the UK because it is confident that drivers will support the idea (CM 10-16 September). URTU's Mike Billingham says that a "positive reaction" to the union's fringe meeting at last week's Trade Union Congress conference has given the campaign momentum. "About a dozen people attended the meeting including two Transport and General Workers Union delegates who said they supported the idea of one union," he says. "Now we have to move on and get more drivers debating the idea through URTU members visiting truckstops." Billingham says none of the drivers he has spoken to has raised any objections to the proposal. 'The only doubt is if it will ever happen," he says. "All I can say is that although it will be difficult we can achieve it."
0 The Transport and General Workers Union is urging employers to offer their T&G-registered employees its Driver Care scheme free of charge. The scheme, which was launched last year, provides a driver with £7,000 insurance cover if he permanently loses his licence as a result of illness, accident, disability, poor eyesight or attack. The premium is 50p a week. "If employers can offer this, it will help attract and keep drivers in the industry," says national secretary Danny Bryan.