Yorks Wages Still Problematic
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A RECOMMENDATION that haulier
members of the A.R.O. Yorkshire area should pay the wage increase agreed upon by the National Joint Conciliation Board was made at a special meeting of the Yorkshire Haulage Sectional Board of A.R.O., held in Leeds, on April 6.
The effect of the recommendation is acceptance of the actual increases, but not on the basis of the National Board's arrangements, which provide for the payment of Grade 1 wages in a large part of West Yorkshire and in Hull and district. The Grade 1 scale has never been recognized by the general body of employers in the Yorkshire Traffic Area, nor by the Yorkshire Traffic Area Board employers' panel, which introduced the Yorkshire employers' agreement on wages and conditions, providing for wage scales equivalent to Grades 2 and 3 in the National Board's scheme,
As the employees' panel of the Yorkshire Area Board declined to attend a meeting of the Board which had been called for April 4, at its own request, the attitude of the employers' panel to the new situation has not been formally announced. Nor has the northeastern division of the C.M.U.A. made any announcement as to its attitude.
It was learned this week that the Yorkshire employers' panel had not withdrawn the letter which it recently sent to certain transport users, suggesting that Yorkshire hauliers ought not to be asked to promise to observe the N.J.C.B. wages scales and conditions, in view of prospective negotiations between the employers' and employees' panels of the Yorkshire Area Board. It was stated, last week, that the employees' panel refused to meet the employers' panel unless and until this letter was withdrawn.