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JACKSON MOORE, general secretary of the United Road Transport Union, has sent a strongly-worded open letter to William Rodgers, Minister of Transport, in which he says: "You will be forever remembered as the Secretary of State who sold a sound economical transport system down the river".
The letter is in reply to Mr Rodgers' plea for employers and trade unions to get together to make sense of the situation in which they find themselves in relation to EEC regulations.
Mr Rodgers told the industry that the time had come for it to accept the Commission's decisions and show common sense and goodwill in working out the implications.
Mr Moore blames the Minister for the present situation, declaring that the responsibility is neither that of the employers nor the unions.
He states that EEC members in mainland Europe do not regard the regulations as something to be honoured, but more of something sometime to be achieved.
On the question of tachographs, URTU's general secretary states categorically: "Our members will not allow their employers to operate tachographs".
Mr Jackson's letter in vague terms tells the Minister that his members would not accept any real or imagined wage reduction.
He says that hours changes are outside the Government's pay policy and indeed are imposed by the EEC Parliament and not by Westminster.