Liverpool strike threatened
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LIVERPOOL hauliers, who are trying to ease the Transport and General Workers' Union's controls over working practices in the city, are being threatened with industrial action if they do not agree to a 1:6 increase in basic wage rates.
TGWU members met last weekend to consider the employers' refusal to agree a wage increase until the union eases such limits as its control of a temporary drivers' register or its daily driving limit. They are to pursue company level claims of £6 a week on basic rates and 75p per night subsistence, and have threatened industrial action against any company which refuses to pay the increase, TGWU officer Frank Apps told CM.
Employers are expected to meet soon.
In Northern Ireland, .next to Liverpool at the top of the wages league, employers have offered S:5.80 on basic rates and 65p in subsistence.