Drivers ask for £10
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WEST MIDLAND hauliers will be presented with a claim for a E10 across-the-board wage claim when their representatives meet Transport and General Workers' Union officials next week.
The claim, which follows a similar one from Scottish drivers, would also widen the present £2.50 differential for drivers of 38-tonners to £5.50 and establish a top rate of £110. That would be a rise of 12 per cent.
For drivers of 32.5-tonners, the rise to £105.50 would be 10.5 per cent.
The claim also calls for a one-hour reduction in the working week to 39 hours, a El increase in overnight subsistence to £12, a £1 increase in night allowance, improvements in annual holiday entitlement, sickness and accident benefit, and the establishment of a £1 daily meal allowance.
Both sides represented on the West Midlands Joint Industrial Council meet next week to discuss the claim, but no early settlement is anticipated by either side.
Shop stewards and TGWU officials meet early next month to conclude a wage claim on behalf of drivers whose employers operate from the Birmingham container terminal. A meeting with employers is anticipated before the end of November.