TGWU wants £10 more in Scotland
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• The Transport and General Workers Union has put in its second driver's pay claim for 1988 — this time to the Scottish joint industrial council, which includes the RHA's Scottish area. RHA district manager Tom Brattin says the TGWU is asking for a 210 across-the-board weekly wage rise; a 22 increase in subsistence payments; a night rate of time-and-a-third and an extra week's holiday.
The union also wants the adult rate extended to cover 19-year-olds; a 39-hour week without loss of pay; a committee to "consider payments relating to sickness, pensions and medical examinations"; and payment for the loss of an HGV licence on the scale of a redundancy payment.
While he says that the RI-IA is prepared to discuss the claim, Brattin describes it as ...nonsensical — bearing in mind the state of the industry. There are just not the profits in the industry to meet such a claim".
The TGWU's Scottish claim for a 210 a-week increase in basic wages is noticeably higher than the original 28-a-week rise recommended by the TGWU's Hire and Reward Conference (CM 20-26 August).
0 The TGWU is asking for an 28-a-week rise, in its claim to the Southern joint industrial council. The eight-point claim, which will be handled by the RHA's South Eastern Region, also includes an extra 22 on overnight subsistence; night rate at time-and-a-third; a shorter working week without loss of pay and the recommendation that double time should be paid for weekend working after 13.00hrs on a Saturday or after four hours' driving, whichever comes first.
The TGWU is also asking the Southern JIC for a .21 daily meal allowance, longer holidays and an agreement with employers on the cost of retrieving the body of a driver who dies while working away from home. As we closed for press this week a TGWU claim was also due to be made with the RHA's Midlands office.