Hand in hand into the 80s
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Brian Hayward, managing director of National Carriers Ltd, understands the importance of trust between management and unions and of full consultation between them. In announcing the company's development plans for the '80s (Commercial Motor, October 12) he said that consultation with the National Union of Railwaymen and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association began more than a year ago. Their attitude was objective and disciplined, and members of the unions' executives had some good ideas.
A video-tape film explaining not only the development programme, but the background to it, has been shown to employees and their representatives all over the country and has been keenly discussed.
The "star" of the film is Paul Rivett, group director, general distribution, who uses film sequences to show how parcels are handled mechanically in France, America and Japan, and to explain how the best of the methods will be applied to National Carriers' depots, beginning in Birmingham. In Texas, the cradle of extravagance, mechanisation is apparently being used for its own sake, for parcels fall off the sophisticated conveyors and would be better handled manually.