Dockers impose no-name ban
Page 50
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
DOCKERS in Hull have warned haulage companies that they will refuse to load, unload or be involved with any heavy goods vehicle that does not clearly bear the company's name.
Mr Jack Ashwell, road section officer for the Hull TGWU branch, told CM on Monday that there were several reasons for the ban. However, it is understood that the main reason stems from the Hull Neap House Wharf dispute of two years ago when the dockers blacked several companies permanently because their drivers were said to have broken through picket lines.
Mr Kenneth Wake, chairman of the Hull assenting hauliers' group, said that the dockers had discovered that vehicles operated by certain of these blacked companies were using the docks, albeit in trucks which did not bear a company name.
Mr Wake went on to say: "This decision has great ramifications — any ownaccount haulier who arrives at the docks in an unmarked truck could have to wait up to two days until the procrastination had ended." Mr Wake added that his group would bring up the matter when it next held a meeting with the union on September18.