Haulage Pay Rise Confirmed • By Wages Council
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT
IN spite of some 300 objections the
proposals for higher pay for Aand B-Licensed drivers were confirmed at a meeting of the Road Haulage Wages Council in London this week. They now go to the Minister of Labour, Mr. John Hare, for confirmation and final ratification. His order, which will be numbered R.H. (74), will also name the date when the new rates come into operation. This is expected to be early in the New Year, since the Process of confirmation and the printing of the new tables usually takes a few weeks.
The new rate will apply to all Aand B-licensed drivers except those employed by British Road Services. A separate Claim for B.R.S. men has been submitted and has been awaiting the outcome of the Wages Council meeting. Now a similar increase is expected to ibe negotiated quite quickly since B.R.S. rates customarily follow those of the other hauliers. C-licensed drivers, who are not covered by the Wages Council, also usually follow suit.
A pay rise will add 5 per cent to the present rates in Grade 1 areas, rounded
• to the nearest 3d., with maintenance of existing differentials. It will give drivers' increases ranging from 9s. 3d. a week to 10s. 3d. a week. In the London area, adult drivers of 5-ton vehicles will have their pay raised from £9 .8s. 3d. a week to 19 17s. 6d. At the other end of the scale, those driving vehicles between 15 and 18 tons carrying capacity will get ft I Os. 6d. a week in place of the present £10 10s. 3d.