B.R.S. and Hauliers Plan New Wages Council
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A PLAN by British Road Services and independent hauliers to create rmk with the trade unions a new Joint Industrial Council is described in a nine-point policy statement issued to members of the national council and .others on Tuesday by the Road Haulage Association.
The new council "-would permit questions of wages and conditions of employment to be settled solely between representatives of trade unions on
the one side and joint representation of employers in the industry on the other." There would be no independent Members, as in the case of the Road Haulage Wages Council.
"Although a draft of the constitution of the proposed Joint Industrial Council has not yet proved acceptable to the trade unions," says the statement, " it would appear from their undertaking to examine the draft that they may not be wholly opposed to the proposal in principle. This fact encourages the pursuit of Association policy to establish such machinery and ultimately to secure the winding up of the Road Haulage Wages Council."
The failure from the employers' point of view, of the Wages Council and the National Joint Industrial Council for the road haulage industry to function satisfactorily is attributed not to the similarity of their objects, but to the exclusion of B.R.S. from the machinery. This situation is said to be satisfactory neither to independent hauliers nor to B.R.S.
Each side justifiably suspects that it has been played off by the unions against the other. Although the unions may secure tactical advantages, these procedures cannot, it is stated, be wholly satisfactory to them, and they must often wonder whether to approach first either the Wages Council or B.R.S., or both simultaneously.
(Summary of statement, page 3271 I37-TON LOAD DELIVERED
AGIANT 137-ton granite crusher—the
heaviest single consignment ever to be carried on one ship by the Continental Ferry Service—has been delivered to Bardon Hill Quarries, Leicester, by B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd., after a 450-mile trip from the manufacturers in Montbrison, France.
The crusher was carried through France and Belgium on four Pickfords low-loaders and a 15-ton lorry. At Tilbury, tractors were waiting to haul the low-loaders to Leicester.