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THE FIRM of Alec Ay Transport Ltd, Fraserburg haulage contractors, is st off the road, despite tt nationally-agreed wage deg The firm's 21 drivers are dispute with managemei over details of the agreemei and a spokesman said that tl firm's doors had been closed 1 them following a breakdow in negotiations.
Alec Ayre said: "If this got on, we will just have to pac up. It's not £65 they are ge ting, it would be £78 with a the extras. We've never seen union man since this and IA don't know what's going t happen. It is very near the um when we'll just have to clos the doors and 21 men will out of a job."
James Brackenbridg( RHA's chief negotiator an managing director of Pate( son's Transport in Aberdeet denied that his firm ha reached a separate agreemer and said his men returned t work on the basis of the Scoi tish settlement signed in Glas gow on Wednesday. Th drivers have won £65 a wee; guarantee of 45 hours wor14 giving them £77.18 a week.