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INTENSIFIED industrial action could be on the cards at Roadline UK from next month, if the current wages dispute with the Transport and General Workers Union is not resolved.
Shop stewards meet in Birmingham next weekend to decide their future strategy, including a possible intensification of action. At present, TGWU officers claim that a policy of no co-operation is already causing disruption to the network of services.
They are protesting against the company's decision to apply a 3.25 per cent wage increase which had already been rejected by its members, and have advised members to reject a revised offer of a 4.5 per cent increase with effect from October 1984.
Shop stewards have meantime had a reply from Roadline parent group National Freight Consortium chairman Sir Peter Thompson to their letter protesting about Roadline's management style (CM, April 7).
He has refused to intervene, saying it is a matter for existing machinery to resolve, but has indicated his willingness to meet TGWU general-secretary Moss Evans.
THE WEST GERMAN motor industry is holding its 1984 trade fair Automechanika in the Messe Frankfurt between September 11 and 16.
Around 1,450 exhibitors from 28 countries have registered.