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Drivers offered 5pc
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FIVE PER CENT wage offers have been made to haulage drivers in key areas of England and in Scotland.
Employers represented on the Scottish joint Industrial Council have offered a five per cent increase in basic rates, which would take the £103.51) 32.5-tonne rate to £108.67 and the £105.50 38tonne rate to .010.77.
Sickness benefit would rise by five per cent.
The employers and Transport and General Workers Union representatives have already agreed — according to a formula worked out last year — that the £11.S0 overnight subsistence rate should rise by 68p (in line with the retail price index) to £12.18.
TGWU shop stewards are considering the offer.
In the East Midlands, employers have offered i.-5.25 on basic pay and 50p on subsistence. At present, the 32.5tonne basic rate is .000.40 and the 38-tonne rate is '.103.67. Subsistence is ti12 West Midlands employers have told TGWU representatives they are prepared to offer a total increase package worth five per cent and have promised to prepare options of how this might be paid.
Discussions in London and Southern England are understood to involve similar amounts.
Further claims, meanwhile, have been submitted in line with TGWU policy.
A ti10 increase in basic pay has been sought in Sheffield (joint with the United Road Transport Union), while £8 increases have been sought in Eastern England, Tyne and Wear, Carlisle and Penrith, and Northern Ireland. All of them want £2 extra on overnight subsistence.
The Sheffield claim calls for adult rates to be paid at age 18, five weeks' holiday after one year, night rate increased from time-and-a-quarter to time-and-a-third, sickness and accident benefit to be aligned with basic rates, and for a gradual progression to a 35hour week without loss of pay.
The Eastern, •lyne and Wear, and Carlisle/Penrith claims seek a 39-hour week without loss of pay, and night rate at time-and-a-third. The two northern claims also demand the introduction of a sickness and injury scheme, in line with basic pay, four weeks' holiday after a year and five weeks' after three years, and for a .ti6,0 0 0 payment (regardless of service) for the loss of an HGV licence.
The northern claim seeks discussions after the wages issue is settled so that a joint industrial council may be set Up.
The Northern Ireland claim, in line with all others, seeks talks on the implications of a reduction in the minimum age for medical examinations of drivers to 46 and possible changes in state pension arrangements.