Salary offer to BRS drivers
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BRITISH ROAD SERVICES has offered its drivers a deal which could revolutionise the future relationship between employers and unions. It wants to give them salaried status.
BRS and the Transport and General Workers Union have been discussing methods of reducing the basic working week for some months, and the company has offered salaried status as a means of achieving this.
It has also offered a £4 supplementary increase in the basic weekly rate, pending the implementation of the radical proposal. The current top weight basic rate at BRS is £87 for 40 hours.
TGWU commercial group secretary Jack Ashwell told CM that a BRS delegates' conference would be held after Christmas to establish whether the members want to pursue the offer.
Negotiations have also begun at Roadline, and a revised offer, with higher basic pay rate, was to be discussed on Wednesday this week.
The TGWU is to have further negotiations after Christmas with Pickfords, but it is still awaiting a wage offer from Tankfreig ht.