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It looks as though the wagebiters may have been bit. The Transport and General Workers' Union is reported to be worried by a claim by the Road Haulage Association that members have resigned in the misguided belief that they can thus avoid the need to pay wages agreed between the RHA and the unions.
I gather that the TGWU is checking on wages, particularly those paid by rural operators with fewer than five drivers. Where drivers are found to be paid lass than the negotiated rates, a claim for parity under schedule 11 of the Employment Protection Act will be lodged.
This is the kind of situation that the RHA forecast when the TGWU and others pressed the Secretary of State for Employment to abolish the Road Haulage Wages Council and not, as the RHA wished, to convert it into a Statutory Joint Industrial Council. Unfortunately, employees will not be alone in suffering from the results of their unions' folly. Reputable hauliers will be undercut by the less scrupulous and they will find no solace in being able to say: "We told you so."