FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE R.H. CENTRAL WAGES BOARD UNDERSTAND that
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the Road Haulage Central Wages Board has before it a further application on behalf of road haulage workers for wage and conditions amendments.
It occurs to me that the employers' side might well, at this stage, introduce into R.H.23 something that has been missing from previous R.H. publications, but which, to my mind, is the whole essence of such agreements.
By this I mean that the whole of the terms shown in any R.H. publication should be clearly indicated in bold type at the forefront of the contents. It should also be' stated that these wages and conditions of employment apply, only to those workers who are ready and willing to' work and to carry out the reasonable requirements of their employers-in connection with the industry of road haulage. This, or words to the same effect, could. be underlined.
As is well knoWn, a union member remains fully entitled to all union benefits, which include representation on the Road Haulage Central Wages Board, so long as he or she does not break union rules, and this applies to workers and " won't " workers. As every employer has some of the latter, what right has the union to sit at any Board and negotiate terms on their behalf and defend them against their employers in any dispute?
We read in R.H.22 of a regular worker, a milk worker and a road haulage worker, of time worked. deemed worked, etc., and sure the union cannot object to a worker being identified, as suggested here?
Perivale. J. WILLIAMS.