NCL/BR S integration meetings clash
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• Two crucial meetings on September 17 are designed to further NCL/BRS integration, but trade union attitudes are unlikely to soften, writes John Darker.
A meeting of National Freight Corporation executives with the transport trade unions at the Charing Cross Hotel clashes embarrassingly with a meeting at the BRS Parcels headquarters at Swiss Cottage. Some of the union chiefs concerned would have wished to be present at both meetings and there is natural speculation about the reasons for calling the meetings on the same day.
Mr Jackson Moore, general secretary of
URTU, says he expects Mr Dan Pettit, chairman of the National Freight Corporation, to spell out the Government attitude to the integration of the two parcels organizations. The trade union officials, in Mr Moore's view, will be just as hostile to the.plan now as they were a year ago when merger proposals were first mooted.
"We ourselves," said Mr Moore, "are quite adamant that it is lunacy to try an integration exercise until NCL is out of the red. Quite frankly, I can think of no argument—even a threat by the Government to offer one or other companies on the stock market—which will make us change our view.
"A representative at each meeting will be in no doubt of our view on integration and any detailed proposal put forward by BRS Parcels will be considered separately."
NGTM conference cancelled
• The National Guild of Transport Managers has had, due to unforeseen circumstances,to cancel its second annual conference, due to be held at the New Bath Hotel, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, on Friday and Saturday September 24 and 25.