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BOARD OVERRIDING WESTERN AGREEMENT?
In the coarse of a statement issued last Saturday, Mr. K. G. Foster, chairman of the employers' panel of the Devon and Cornwall Joint Conciliation Board, intimated that the National Board had entirely ignored the agreement regarding wages and conditions recently reached by the employers' and employees' representatives on the Devon and Cornwall Board, and was seeking to impose on all employers throughout England and Wales, as from January I, far more onerous wages and conditions than those agreed ba in. Devon and Cornwall.
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The situation had been considered at a-special emergency meeting of the employers' panel, said Mr. Foster, which had decided to advise all A and B-licence holders in Devon and Cornwall to put into force, at once, the wages and conditions set out in the agreement. Steps were being taken to obtain a decision of the Industrial Court on the matter.
When the terms of the Devon and Cornwall agreenient were published recently, it was stated that the overtime conditions and rates of .pay would stand in abeyance pending further consideration by the National Board, and would be the subject of a supple mental agreement. This matter has now been agreed tipon, the terms being that the first eight hours 'of weekday overtime shall be paid at time-and-aneighth, and beyond that at time-and-a. quarter.
At a meeting on January 10, the Taunton area branch of the Road Haulage Association decided to accept the new scale Of wages and working conditions fixed, on January 4, bY the Western Traffic Area Board, and re.ferred to in last week's issue.