BREWERY PEACE PLAN
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DRIVERS at seven Whitbread brewery depots have agreed to a peace formula to end their six-week-old dispute over the manning of new equipment introduced by the company.
The formula was agreed by the Transport and General Workers' Union shop stewards last week and later put to a series of mass meetings at the affected depots.
Under the formula the men have returned to work and have agreed to operate one vehicle of the new type in each depot fOitraining purposes. The men will also receive 50 ' per cent of their basic pay for the time lost during the dispute. The rip-iv-blew-UP when the company tried to introduce new Bedford six wheel vehicles fitted with bodies designed for ease of loading