New Rates for Removals: Change in Plan for Wages Council
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RECOMMENDATIONS f or the revision of the scale of fair charges and the schedule of rates for small lots have been approved by. the executive committee of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers.
A meeting of the liaison committee is to be held shortly, so that, among other things, the new recommended Scale can be discussed with representatives of Pickfords.
Charges for small lots are graded' according to cubic capacity and mileage. Distances are tabulated in steps of 20 miles from 20 miles to 200 miles and 25-mile stages from 200 to 300; thereafter rates are quoted for mileages of 350, 400 and 500.
Specimen rates, which come into force this month, are as follows—
Efforts are still being made to secure the establishment of a separate wages council for the removal trade and the Joint Industrial Council for the industry is trying to reach agreement on the matter.
The executive committee of the
N.A.F.W.R. has agreed that should a separate wages council .be set up, drivers' wages and working conditions should, for the present, remain outside its scope and should continue to be dealt with by the Road Haulage Wages Council. This suggestion was made by the Association's Scottish Area at a meeting of the employers' side of a committee of the J.I.C. and was later endorsed by the executive of the N.A.F.V.V.R. It has now to be considered by the employees' side.
The employees are being asked to support the formation of a wages council to deal with the pay and conditions of workers other than drivers.
R.H.E. UNDERCUTTING ALLEGED
A T a meeting of the South-Western t -%.(Exeter) Area of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, it was alleged that some units of the Road Haulage Executive were quoting for removals at less than cost to keep vehicles fully occupied,
ULSTER MILK FLOW BEGINS
LAST Monday, 30 tankers began work on the annual shipment of milk from Northern Ireland to this country. Later in the year it is expected that 45 vehicles will be employed on this service. Tankers are loaded with milk at depots of the Ministry of Agriculture in Northern Ireland, are ferried to this country and return the next day.