Blackcoat Claim Turned Down
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BECAUSE they consider that British Road Services are not legally an organization of employers and do not represent such an organization, and also because B.R.S. do not represent a substantial proportion of the employers in the road haulage industry, the Industrial Court have ruled that the agreement between B.R.S. and the Transport and General Workers Union covering the wages of administrative, professional, technical, supervisory and clerical workers is not binding on other employers.
The T.G.W.U. had brought a claim against Road Services (Forth), Ltd., for not observing the terms of the B.R.S. agreement.
For the claim, made under Section 8 of the Terms and Conditions of Employment Act, 1959, to be well founded both those points had to be proved_ Had the T.G.W.U. claim been upheld, other road haulage employers would have been liable to pay wages comparable with those in the B.R.S. agreement to the classes of employee concerned.