R.H.A. Forms Labour Relations Committee
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A LABOUR relations committee was
set up by the Road Haulage Association's national council at its meeting last week. One of the committee's first tasks will be to draw up proposals for new employer-union negotiating machinery, but it will have no bawl in actual wages and conditions negotiations—which will remain, at least for the present, the responsibility of the Road Haulage Wages Council.
The members of the new labour relations committee are, by and large, the same as the members of the study group which (as reported in The Commercial Motor of April 3) the Association set up some tong time ago to investigate pay and conditions procedures. The committee has thus, in effect, superseded the study group, and falls into the pattern of action on this front which was discussed in this journal on April 10. The long-term aim seems to be voluntary pay negotiations between R.H.A., B.R.S. and the unions.
The new committee will discuss labour relations procedures with outside interests — notably, of course, the transport unions — and although no date has yet been fixed, mid-June has been mentioned as a possibility for a meeting with union representatives. Members of the labour relations committee are:
Mr, N. T. O'Reilly, Mr. R. H. L. Farmer, Mr. J. Barrie, Mr, T. P. Wells, Mr. H. F. Capon, Mr. A. Dunn, Mr. R. A. Edwards, Mr. R. S. Heaton, Mr. T. J. E. Price, Mr. J. A. B. Stimpson, Mr. J. G. Russell, Mr. P. H. R. Turner.