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Union pushes for £8 rise in the Midlands
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• The Transport and General Workers Union has submitted its 1988 pay claims to the West and East Midlands Joint Industrial Council. Road Haulage Association Midlands district manager Bob Ward says the TGWU is asking for an 28 across-the-board rise in weekly pay, a 22 increase on subsistence and a reduction in the working week without loss of pay. It also wants double-time after four hours working on a Saturday, five weeks holiday after four years service and an extra day's holiday for each year in service.
Ward says that there will be a meeting with the union at the end of the month to discuss the claim, but adds that he "is disappointed in its Lack of initiative_ It is quite obviously a national claim rather than a loc al one: it should really reflect what's happening in the Midlands." Ward claims that the recession hit the area "very quickly" and companies are only just beginning to overcome its effects.
The TGWU's claim to the East Midlands JIC, which will be handled through the RHA's Eastern office in Peterborough, is virtually idential to that of the West Midlands.
The RHA's industrial relations manager George Chadfield says that the union claims are based on the TGWU's Hire and Reward Conference recommendations and are "a shopping list of what they want.
"They take no account of everybody's ability to pay. We had hoped that claims this year would be more realistic".